{"id":743532,"date":"2013-03-26T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=396556"},"modified":"2013-03-26T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:50:06","slug":"apple-buys-indoor-mapping-company-in-latest-bid-to-improve-ios-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743532","title":{"rendered":"Apple buys indoor mapping company in latest bid to improve iOS Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/apple-wifislam-acquisition-ios-maps-396556\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/apple-crap-maps.jpg?w=650&#038;h=408&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C408\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple WifiSLAM Acquisition\" title=\"iOS Maps\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/20\/apple-ios-maps-job-postings-331377\/\">still plugging away<\/a> in its efforts to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/10\/apple-maps-criticism-warning-ios-6\/\">improve its widely panned iOS Maps application<\/a> and on Monday it paid an estimated $20 million to acquire indoor mapping company\u00a0WifiSLAM. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2013\/03\/23\/apple-acquires-indoor-location-company-wifislam\/\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that WifiSLAM \"has developed ways for mobile apps to detect a phone user\u2019s location in a building using Wi-Fi signals\" and \"has been offering the technology to application developers for indoor mapping and new types of retail and social networking apps.\" An <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> spokesperson wouldn't tell the <em>Journal<\/em> why Apple had acquired the company and only said that it \"buys smaller technology companies from time to time.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/X675b6A5cVw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (AAPL) is still plugging away in its efforts to improve its widely panned iOS Maps application and on Monday it paid an estimated $20 million to acquire indoor mapping company\u00a0WifiSLAM. The Wall Street Journal reports that WifiSLAM &#8220;has developed ways for mobile apps to detect a phone user\u2019s location in a building using Wi-Fi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37qs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}