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By: What Did Apple Really Say About Location-based Ads? | Geodelic Blog

What Did Apple Really Say About Location-based Ads? | Geodelic Blog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:50:50 +0000

[...] that the Core Location API features (which I imagine are based on technology being developed by Placebase, which Apple bought last summer) touted in Apple’s tip don’t seem to have been released yet, and that the last material change [...]

By: What Did Apple Really Say About Location-based Ads? – GigaOM

What Did Apple Really Say About Location-based Ads? – GigaOM — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:28:28 +0000

By: Apple je pod svoje okrilje dodal spletno kartografsko podjetje Placebase « Scialni mediji

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:25:35 +0000

[...] Taka vrsta zemljevidov je zagotovo zaželena pri mnogokaterih spletnih uporabnikih, spletnih straneh in razvijalcih. To dokazuje tudi poslovanje podjetja, ki je bilo ves čas profitabilno in to brez finančnih vložkov tveganega kapitala. Več o Apple-ovih razlogih za nakup podjetja Placebase si preberite na tej povezavi. [...]

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:24:09 +0000

[...] So Why Did Apple Buy a Mapping Company? [qi:gigaom_icon_geolocation] Apple (s aapl) purchased digital mapmaker Placebase in July for an undisclosed sum, [...] [...]

By: Google spamming iPhone Maps with ads?

Google spamming iPhone Maps with ads? — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:22:04 +0000

[...] certainly been much speculation over the future of Google’s iPhone Maps app after it emerged this week that Apple bought mapping company Placebase in July. Throw in the dispute between Google [...]

By: PolicyMap » Apple, Placebase, Google, PolicyMap?

PolicyMap » Apple, Placebase, Google, PolicyMap? — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:48:04 +0000

[...] number of the articles, including this one in GigaOm, reference our http://www.policymap.com site as we are the most substantial application ever built using [...]

By: Weblog sortega » Archivo » La compra de Placebase por parte de Apple - Comunicación, usabilidad, diseño e interacción

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:27:11 +0000

[...] por parte de Apple? – faq-mac.com -Apple’s breakup with Google continues – The Loop -So Why Did Apple Buy a Mapping Company? – Gigaom [...]

By: Tofino

Tofino — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:48:58 +0000

i think you have that backwards. google converted some of youtube from flash (a proprietary format) to h264 (an open format) JUST so that it’s viewable on the iPhone.

By: Johnny Mozzarella

Johnny Mozzarella — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:24:32 +0000

Helloooo! This is not about replacing Google maps on the iPhone.
This is about creating a killer app for their TABLET!
It will trickle down to the iPhone as well but the real mobile information mapping will happen on the tablet platform.

By: The rift of the summer of ‘09 – discourse and notes

The rift of the summer of ‘09 – discourse and notes — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:57:07 +0000

[...] board. After this acquisition was publicized, the bloggers were quick to comment on the obvious disassociation with Google Maps, and Apple’s intention to replace that popular platform with one that it can control [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:57:29 +0000

Apple buys Yahoo!… Oh no you’re right!!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:48:39 +0000

You know I registered on this site as soon as I read the story. I input my home address and even with a nine digit zip the mapping had my location by more than 15 miles.

Hopefully if this ever goes to mainstream deployment it will be more fine tuned.

By: rms

rms — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:58:00 +0000

More competition for the new Microsoft, Google aka the “don’t be evil” brothers–the better

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:10:44 +0000

While I am a strong believer in the inevitability of Apple/Google evolving into Frienemies in the months ahead (see: The Chess Masters: Apple versus Google – http://bit.ly/IHPmW), I think this is more a case of Apple adding geolocative DNA to their bench and continuing their innovation around the Maps app, which while powered by Google Maps under the under is nonetheless developed by Apple in terms of look, feel and supported workflows.

By: Apple 收购数字地图制造商 Placebase，跟 Google 彻底决裂？ | 谷奥——探寻谷歌的奥秘

Apple 收购数字地图制造商 Placebase，跟 Google 彻底决裂？ | 谷奥——探寻谷歌的奥秘 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:38:03 +0000

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By: gbp

gbp — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:11:52 +0000

love it love it love it
Google is jumping to telephony and operating systems
APPLE has semi conductors and now wants mapping application ( bye bye google maps).
This is exciting for the tech industry.

The three companies that can define the tech future are Google , Apple and Microsoft ( with support crew from Intel, Cicso)

Good luck Microsoft.

And SAMSUNG can copy them all !!!!