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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News and MacNN
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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.
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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 … | 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).
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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.
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't — Coupons, Pitches Tied to Smartphone Search Get a Yes; Don't ‘Spray and Pray’ — In 2010, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, “Mobile advertising really sucks.” Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is slowly being written.
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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.
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Neil Young reveals Pono music player, promises ‘the best sound anyone can get’ — Hardware coming next year and will play back master recordings — Neil Young has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote Pono, a high-quality digital music service that will launch next year.
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Rolling Stone, Geek.com, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, iPodNN, Guardian and Gizmodo
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Urban Outfitters Says It Will Never Buy Another Cash Register Again — All Sales Will Be Done On iPods And iPads — Retailer Urban Outfitters had its first ever annual analyst day today. — You can listen to the whole presentation here, but about halfway through CIO Calvin Hollinger makes … Sponsor Posts
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