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Google Maps iPhone App Now Serving Ads
Looking for sushi in New York via the Google Maps iPhone app? Hope you like sifting through sponsored links, as Google Maps for the iPhone is now serving up sponsored links. Obviously Google is in the business of ads, but what threw me off was that the sponsored link info bubble popped up by ...
Apple purchased mapping company in July to replace Google  - Computerworld Blogs
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blogs.computerworld.com — On July 7th, Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org announced in a tweet that Apple had bought... the company that produced the Maps API that his company used in their software. Pushpin is the name of the software API that Openplaces uses and it is ... (more) Apple purchased mapping company in July to replace ...
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How Placebase Survived Google Maps
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Android to grab No. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner
computerworld.com — Computerworld - While the Google-backed Android mobile operating system currently runs on less than 2% of all... smartphones, Gartner Inc. predicts it will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market in 2012 -- ahead of the iPhone , as well as Windows ... (more) Android to grab No. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner
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Google Maps for the iPhone Now Including Ads
iPhone Alley - RSS — ... Even though Google Maps on the iPhone is free, it's still Google and Google is in the business of selling ads. Per The Apple Blog, Google is now serving up sponsored ad links with its Google Maps app for the iPhone. ...

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