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Apple Acquires Local Data Outfit Locationary — Last September Grant Ritchie, CEO of crowdsourced location data company Locationary, penned an article for TechCrunch describing five challenges Apple faces as it builds out its new mapping service. Ten months later he's become part of the effort to overcome them.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Buy HopStop, Pushing Deeper Into Maps — Apple Inc. (AAPL) agreed to buy online transit-navigation service HopStop.com Inc., people with knowledge of the deal said, seeking to improve mapping tools after a rocky debut for its directions software last year.
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Apple Confirms HopStop Acquisition — Looks like Apple's recent purchase of crowdsourced location data company Locationary was part of a two-fer mapping acquisition. The company also acquired online transit-navigation appmaker HopStop. HopStop's area of cartographic expertise …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
New Nexus 7 leak points to Android 4.3, dual cameras and wireless charging (update: on sale July 31st) — A few days back, a lovely tipster sent us in some shots that strongly suggest a shiny new Nexus 7 will be hitting shelves next week for $269. Granted, that's for the 32GB model … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Moto X to be revealed on August 1st in New York City — Motorola is set to reveal its highly-anticipated new Android smartphone, the Moto X, on August 1st. We've received an invite for an event in New York City with the teaser “Come experience the new Motorola.”
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google's Chrome app launcher now available for all Windows users — Though there's no official word from Google yet, it looks like the Chrome launcher has come out of developer preview mode and into full release, at least for Windows. On our own PCs, the installation placed the launcher app … | Christopher Joye / Financial Review: |
Huawei spies for China, says ex-CIA head — The former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, Michael Hayden, believes Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei Technologies is a significant security threat to Australia and the US … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Google Cut 5,383 Jobs At Motorola Last Quarter — Google cut 5,383 jobs at Motorola Mobility last quarter, according to its earnings report released last night. — AndroidBeat was the first site we saw to spot this nugget from the release: — On a worldwide basis … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
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| Kate Zernike / New York Times: |
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data — Staking out new ground in the noisy debate about technology and privacy in law enforcement, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the police will now have to get a search warrant before obtaining tracking information from cellphone providers.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail's compose window now has a full-screen option, and a switch to set it as the default — Google today announced a big change to Gmail's compose window: a full-screen option and a switch to set it as the default. The new feature is rolling out worldwide “over the next couple of days.”
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Apple's Dev Center has been down for over 24 hours, keeping developers from downloading SDKs and iOS 7 beta — At 12:51 PM EST yesterday, we noticed that Apple's Dev Center website had stopped working and was serving a “We'll be back soon” error. 24 hours later, and nothing has changed.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
U.S. Music Sales Down As Streaming Up 24% To 51B Tracks In 6 Months; Harlem Shake Bumps Its Way To The Top — As questions continue to swirl around just how well artists get paid through streaming music services like Spotify — and what they can do to improve that — Nielsen today released numbers …
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| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple, Samsung in Renewed Settlement Talks, but Deal Elusive — Apple and Samsung have held a series of private negotiations about their numerous patent disputes since a court victory by Apple in one case last summer, according to legal documents and people familiar with the situation.
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Nears Deals With 2 U.S. Agencies — Push Into Government Sector Is Gaining Traction — Samsung Electronics Co. is close to signing deals for its devices with two U.S. government agencies, according to people familiar with the matter, signs that the South Korean company's push … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft shares down more than 11% on earnings report — Investors sent Microsoft's share price down more than 11 percent, to about $31.40, in trading this morning following the company's rocky earnings report yesterday, which included a $900 million charge on weak sales of the company's Surface RT tablet.Sponsor Posts
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