The end goal, the companies said, is a combination of the two entities' areas of expertise: physical location and online retail.
"It just can't be the case that people are walking around heads down tapping on a screen," he says. "That just can't be the future of the human race."
The quality of map apps have improved a great deal in two years.
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The Apple acquisition rumor this week was Waze, the crowdsourced mapping and traffic app. The only problem? Waze would only slow Apple down. There is a company, however, that could help Apple almost immediately.
Guest Post Often forgotten in the great Google v. Apple Map war of 2012 is another challenger -- a platform that is far more suited for the ever-evolving needs of developers and the services they’re building, or one day hope to build: OpenStreetMap.
Guest Post Google's Street View is back on iPhone, with the help of the Web, and here's what we're all using it for.
After trading numerous blows with apartment mapping service PadMapper, popular classifieds site Craigslist has started to roll out its own “map view” of apartments listed on its site.
Guest Post I put iOS 6's new turn-by-turn directions to the test over the weekend, often alongside Android's turn-by-turn directions.
Just as Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for the dismal state of Apple Maps today, Google has updated its Maps application with even more high-res and satellite imagery.
With so much animosity toward Apple Maps, Microsoft would like to take this opportunity to remind you that its Bing app for iOS includes Maps and it’s a pretty decent app all around.
Google just unveiled underwater "street views" of the world's most popular undersea destinations: the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii's Hanauma Bay, and Apo Island in the Philippines. And the amazing views are available in all their 1080P high-def gloriousness.
If you live in San Francisco and work at a tech company in Silicon Valley, you probably take a shuttle to work. Now, an impressive new map shows just how extensive these shuttle services are.
Amazon has opened up a new Maps API so Kindle Fire app developers can ditch Google Maps and instead integrate Amazon’s mapping tech.
Foursquare ditched its corporate overlords and showed some love to a little startup this week. After Google raised the price on its Maps API, Foursquare began looking for new options. It liked OpenStreetMaps, a sort of Wikipedia for geography, but …
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Apple has apparently acquired a company called C3 Technologies that has sophisticated processing technology that can build 3D maps.
Here’s why: If there’s one thing Apple hates, it’s having to rely on technology from a competitor. And when you navigate …
Google has opened its Map Maker tool, which lets locals contribute mapping information to Google Maps, in the United States.
Map Maker has previously been open to 183 countries and regions around the world. But Google has presumably held off …
Contour is introducing a hands-free video camera today that can mark your location as it records high-definition video.
The ContourGPS video camera has global positioning system (GPS) navigation built into it. The camera, which comes with goggles attached, is targeted …
There was a time when going out for a run meant putting on some sneakers and leaving for a jog around the park. But if you need any indication of how far we’ve come, take a look at Nike’s latest …
Online maps are extremely useful, but not very innovative in their present form, as most maps we use today merely mirror paper maps. The road map serves most of our everyday needs, but as more and more data with a …
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