Apple Acquires Transit App HopStop
Good news, iOS transit users: Apple acquired transit and navigation service HopStop as part of its continuing bid to improve its mapping software. The deal was first reported by Bloomberg and confirm...
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As Apple reorients its Maps, Google forges ahead
Google’s purchase of Waze takes a possible competitor off the table, even as Apple improves its once-shaky Maps app. Waze’s mobile navigation app. (Credit: Waze) Apple blew it big-time la...
Billions of Geotagged Tweets Visualized in Twitter’s Amazing Map...
Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that. Twitter posted these maps of Europe, New York City, Tokyo and Istanbul on its...