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September 29, 2012, 2:40 PM

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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:

Apple Drops the “Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever” Claim — Apple's CEO Tim Cook has honestly admitted that Apple Maps isn't as good as competing mapping services but the Apple website made a slightly contradictory claim. It said: … Apple Maps may be beautiful for some regions …

More: Fortune, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, Data Mining, Phones Review, The Register, Mashable!, Quartz and iDownloadBlog.com

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Including Maps on the original iPhone was a last-minute decision — The New York Times lays out an interesting tidbit from the latest on the series of articles from the Maps soap opera: Steve Jobs decided to make a mapping app for the iPhone just weeks before its launch event.

More: The Next Web, Daring Fireball, New York Times, Business Insider, Redmond Pie and iDownloadBlog.com

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Take A Closer Look At The Icon For Apple's Terrible Maps App — iPhones used to come with Google Maps, but Apple booted Google after the two companies were unable to negotiate a new deal. — The whole thing fell apart over turn-by-turn directions. — The problem for Apple is, everyone (well, almost everyone) hates their maps app.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Mashable! and TechCrunch

Tweets: @nikcub, @gaberivera, @jswartwood, @stevenwilsuxx and @kenmasco

John Boudreau / Mercury News:

Apple taps obscure Asian suppliers to bring the iPhone and other products to the masses — BADE, Taiwan — On a November afternoon two years ago, a taxi pulled up to the gate of Ta Liang Technology, one of countless nondescript companies that make up the global gadget supply chain.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac and SiliconBeat

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple's excessive work hours progress: tracking 800k, 97% 60-hour work week compliance — Apple has updated its Labor and Human Rights page to detailing its efforts to curtail excessive work weeks in its suppliers factories, like Foxconn in China. — The updates include the fact …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News and MacNN

Noah Kagan / OkDork:

Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) — Can I be real with you? Real real? — I'm TIRED of answering this question so I'd rather write it out and just point people to this post. — Let me start in reverse. — I can tell you every detail of the day I got fired aka …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @jowyang

Scot Wingo / Amazon Strategies:

Amazon Lending - Amazon starts loaning capital to sellers to help them scale — Sellers are reporting that Amazon has started an interesting new program called Amazon Lending from Amazon Capital Services Inc. (at amazoncapital.com which redirects to amazonservices.com for now).

More: VatorNews, Forbes, AllThingsD, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Reuters

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds — As part of its latest round of “spring cleaning,” Google just announced that it is shuttering AdSense for Feeds. The service, which allows publishers to earn a bit of extra revenue by adding Google's ads to their RSS feeds …

More: The Official Google Blog, AllThingsD and ResearchBuzz. See also Mediagazer

David Carnoy / CNET:

Nook GlowLight e-reader price drops to $119 — Just ahead of Amazon shipping out its highly anticipated Kindle Paperwhite, the Nook GlowLight gets a price chop. — As Amazon gets set to ship out the Kindle Paperwhite, its new e-ink e-reader that features an integrated light, its chief rival appears to be getting a price cut.

More: The Next Web, Android Authority and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @spencerchen

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

US Appeals court rules Motorola can't enforce injunction against Microsoft in Germany... again — In another face of the ever turning world of patent battles, Reuters reports Microsoft has snagged a victory over Motorola as the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in its favor today.

More: Reuters, Bloomberg, FOSS Patents, CNET, The Seattle Times and The Verge

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray For New Revenue Streams.) — Well, Facebook shareholders sure like the sound of Gifts. — Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real …

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Bootstrap creators leave Twitter for Obvious and GitHub but vow to keep working on open-source project — Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton (aka @mdo and @fat), who jointly cooked up front-end Web app development toolkit Bootstrap whilst working at Twitter, have decided to leave the social networking company after 2.5 years.

More: TechCrunch and Bootstrap

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