iOS 6: Apple drops Google Maps, debuts in-house ‘Maps’ with incredible 3D mode  —  Rough mockup showing the user-enabled 3D mode (on the right)  —  According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application.

Facebook Fleshes Out Privacy Policy To Comply With Data Protection Audits, Will Hold Q&A On Monday  —  Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline …

Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO  —  Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.

Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo  —  Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation.  —  The price for the company would be about $100 million, according to one of the sources.  —  Meebo's latest product promises to help users cut through information overload.

HP restarts tablet manufacturing  —  SHANGHAI : Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced it will resume production of consumer tablets but says it will run them on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.  —  The world's largest technology firm suspended its touchPad WebOS tablet production line last year on poor sales.

Why Is Everyone Focused on Zuckerberg's Hoodie?  —  Who could have thought a hoodie could mean so much?  —  Over the last two days, there has been a great deal of mudslinging and hand-wringing about the significance of what Mark Zuckerberg, 27, the chief of executive of Facebook …

Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says  —  Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over.  Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carriers, according to a report.

Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle  —  (Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of his top real estate and finance executives to his San Francisco home to float a bold idea.

Apple accuses Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence  —  On May 1, Apple filed a motion in the Northern District of California alleging that Samsung intentionally destroyed documents it was obligated to hand over as part of the discovery process, an act referred to as “spoilation of evidence” in the legal parlance.

USPS To Stop Delivering iPads And Kindles To Troops And Overseas Consumers On May 16  —  The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16.  The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service …

LinkedIn Is NOT Buying Monster: Here's The Real Story  —  Just got off the phone with a source close to LinkedIn.  —  LinkedIn is not going to buy Monster, and it was never particularly interested in doing so.  —  Basically, a little while back, Monster's Bank of America bankers called LinkedIn …

My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone  —  A venture with $9 million in backing wants to establish a locked-down domain.  —  A security researcher has won investments of more than $9 million to incorporate a tightly policed section of the Internet reserved for banks …

Video of Steve Jobs Parodying ‘Ghostbusters’ Surfaces  —  Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott's attic.  After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one exclusively on Bloomberg TV.

Sony, Panasonic Fall to 30-Year Lows  —  Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. (6752), Japan's biggest consumer-electronics makers, fell to the lowest level in three decades after forecasting earnings that missed estimates because of a failure to end losses from TVs.