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Tim Cook / Apple:

A letter from Tim Cook on Maps — To our customers, At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration …

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives — Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an open letter on Apple's website, finally apologizing for the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. — In the letter, Cook states that he is …

More: CNET, Computerworld, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web, The Verge, Pocket-lint and TUAW. Thanks:@romaindillet

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App Store — Now that Apple has told the world that it didn't come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other map applications heavily within the App Store in case you didn't notice: — It's also showing up for the iPad:

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and WebProNews. Thanks:@thatdrew

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Apple's plan to have music-streaming service built into iPhone 5 scuttled by royalty fight with Sony/ATV — Apple's plan to have its own music-streaming service built into the iPhone 5 was dramatically dashed when talks between the tech giant and Sony/ATV hit a last-minute snag, The Post has learned.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Forbes, MacRumors, TechCrunch, CNET, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, MacNN and SeekingAlpha.com. See also Mediagazer

Tim Kelly / Reuters:

Sharp says making adequate volumes of display used in iPhone5 — (Reuters) - A Sharp Corp executive said the company is making “adequate volumes” of displays it is known to supply for Apple Inc's new iPhone5, indicating that a bottleneck in supplies of screens may have eased.

More: PC Magazine, Inquirer, AllThingsD, Know Your Cell, MacRumors, AppleInsider, SeekingAlpha.com, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, Mashable! and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@chadcat

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Global iPhone 5 Rollout Continues, Tight Supplies Be Damned

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AppleInsider:

Apple iPhone 5 to launch on regional U.S. carriers on Friday, some offering discounts

More: Digits, PC Magazine, Nsight, iLounge, PhoneArena, TUAW, The Next Web, SlashGear and CNET

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Twitter Announces New Improvements For Discover Tab, Adds Continuous Tweet Stream — Today, Twitter announced some updates to its Discover offering. Here's what the company had to say: … The name of this game is context. What Twitter has been working really hard at is providing top news stories …

More: Twitter Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, CNET and WebProNews. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

FCC kicks off effort to reclaim TV spectrum for wireless — The FCC started the process for making rules for the upcoming incentive auction as it tries to free up more wireless spectrum from broadcast TV providers. The target date for the complicated auction, which has three distinct parts, is June 2014.

More: Hillicon Valley, The Next Web, Ars Technica, GigaOM and New York Times. Tweets: @digiphile. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Yes, the iPhone 5 does vibrate differently — If you're the proud owner of an iPhone 5, you may have noticed something different about the way that it vibrates. Well, you're not imagining it, because there is something different about it: the vibrating motor.

More: IntoMobile, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, everythingiCafe and PhoneArena. Tweets: @sohear

Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters:

Exclusive: Groupon reshuffles execs, seeks to fix Europe business — (Reuters) - Groupon Inc (GRPN.O), the world's largest online daily deals provider, is reshuffling senior management roles in an attempt to fix its struggling European business — a shake-up that will also include the departure of its chief of international business.

More: The Register

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Leases Its Towers for $2.4 Billion to Fund Its LTE Plans — T-Mobile said on Friday that it has reached a deal to unload its cellular towers for $2.4 billion, a move that will help fund the company's effort to modernize its network. — The buyer is Houston-based Crown Castle, a major owner of such towers.

More: CNET, Engadget, GeekWire, DSLreports, Business Wire, The Next Web, WebProNews, Bloomberg, BGR and DealBook. Tweets: @inafried

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Leaked: Check out photos of RIM's BlackBerry 10 phones — Renderings of its two upcoming phones — a full touchscreen device and one with a Qwerty keyboard — pop up on the Web. — Research in Motion may not be showing off its BlackBerry 10 phones any time soon, but that doesn't mean photos …

More: digitaltrends.com, The Verge, SlashGear, TechCrunch, InformationWeek, Business Insider, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint

Roger Cheng / CNET:

RIM won't show off BlackBerry 10 phones this year

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book — Over the years, we've pointed out repeatedly a massive Achilles Heel for Google: its often dreadful customer service. Trying to communicate with Google can often be like facing a giant white monolith, rather than any sort of human being.

More: Forbes, Geekosystem and Start Programming with Python. See also Mediagazer

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Sorry, Apple fans: the Google/Motorola fake address “scandal” is no scandal at all — The interwebs are in an uproar about evil Google subsidiary Motorola's map comparison between Google and Apple. I'm sorry, but there's no scandal to be found here. — The commentary includes phrases like …

More: MobileSyrup.com, Softpedia News and WebProNews. Tweets: @manan

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Google's “iLost” Motorola ad faked an address to “lose” iOS 6 Maps

More: The Verge, Inquirer, PhoneArena, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, Sosyal Medya and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@max8378

Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:

Notch: “I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.” — Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade …

More: BBC, CNET, VentureBeat and Edge Online

AppleInsider:

Apple iPad dominates tablet-based web browsing with 98% share, report says — A study released on Thursday claims the iPad accounts for nearly of all web traffic originating from tablets, and 54.5 percent of all traffic from mobile devices, to sites running the touch-centric Onswipe platform.

More: TechCrunch and WebProNews. Thanks:@mcalderone

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery — Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion …

More: Wired, CNET, ABCNEWS, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Engadget, Google LatLong, iDownloadBlog.com and Android Police

TechCrunch:

Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations, While A New Leadership Team Re-Tools — Sources tell us there is turmoil at the executive levels of Color Labs. As you may know, the startup launched with a focus on photo-sharing but quickly became the poster child of Silicon Valley hype …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @dcurtis and @peterpham

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

No, Facebook does not have 63.5 million active users in China. — A new report published this week has suggested that China is Twitter's largest global market and Facebook has 63.5 million users there — despite both being blocked by the country's Internet censorship system …

More: DailyFinance.com, Business Week, CNET, ZDNet and Web 2.0 Asia Blog. Thanks:@jonrussell

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Facebook Tops 63 Million Users in China Despite Ban, Report Says

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