据业内人士曝料，苹果早在今年7月份就悄然收购了一家研发地理、地图信息系统的厂商Placebase。目的不难猜测，苹果很可能要用自行开发的地图软件 ...

苹果曾在2009年收购一家名为PlaceBase的地图技术公司，此后一直有传闻称苹果正在打造内置的地图应用，并且苹果正在利用PlaceBase的数据开发自己的 ...

This is in addition to Apple's previous acquisitions of PlaceBase and Poly9, two companies that also offer mapping technologies. Given these three acquisitions related to the same thing, ...

There is a lot of evidence that Apple acquired mapping company Placebase this summer and that the action might have undermined its relationship with Google, for which mapping technology is a core ...

Placebase CEO Jaron Waldman's updated LinkedIn profile now lists him on the "Geo Team" at Apple. MacRumors discovered that Apple quietly acquired mapping service Placebase back in July.

Placebase could potentially replace the entire Google backend, allowing Apple to completely market iOS Maps as an end-to-end solution from the Cupertino-based company. 3D: ...

Then, founder of Placebase and CEO, Jaron Waldman, started working at Apple on a new “Geo Team”, presumably helping to integrate Placebase mapping technologies into future Apple products.

Computerworld reveals that Apple quietly acquired mapping company Placebase back in July. Placebase is similar to Google Maps in that it is a mapping service and has the world mapped out. You can ...

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 ...

In July, Apple purchased a company called Placebase. Placebase is a company built around a mapping service similar to Google Maps, albeit with a focus on providing an extensive capability for ...

Apple bought its own mapping company, Placebase, in July, according to an article in Computer World. Apparently that’s part of Apple’s plan to put some distance between it and its one-time ...

Hearing the Apple has bought its own mapping company, Placebase, is unsettling. The deal, which supposedly happened in July, added talent to a supposed “Geo” unit inside Apple.