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Apple Dumped Google & Skyhook In April

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We told you Apple was delving in to location database when it acquired Poly 9 earlier this month, its second mapping company after it bought Placebase last year. Now, it has just come to light that Apple had actually dumped Google and Skyhook in April this year in favour of its own location database. This […]

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Apple May Be Developing a Google Earth Competitor

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Apple had very quietly acquired its first web mapping company ‘Placebase’ in July 2009 and now in the July of 2010, it has bought another one. Poly9 is a small Canadian company based in Quebec which is now reported to be under Apple’s acquisition with all employees except 2 who declined the offer, relocated to […]

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