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 ...

该消息还称，苹果此举主要得益于对Placebase、C3 Technologies和Poly9的并购，使得苹果有能力创建一个完整的地图数据库。 在发布iOS 5 之前，苹果和谷歌 ...

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 ...

As 9to5Mac reported in 2009, Apple scooped up their own mapping software development company called Placebase. In the summer of last year, Apple went one step further in their obvious pursuit of a ...

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.

Apple’s purchase of Placebase actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using Placebase maps tweeted about it. But it slid under most people’s radars as ...

Using Placebase instead of Google Maps could continue to deepen the apparent rift that has formed between the two companies, dating back to Apple's rejection of a Google Voice app. The evidence ...

This summer, Apple quietly purchased the worldwide mapping company Placebase — one that competed with Google's own Maps product, featured on the iPhone. Reports of the purchase of Placebase ...

Los Angeles-based Placebase, a developer of interactive mapping and mashup tools, has quietly been acquired by Apple Computer, according to a report from Computerworld. No details or announcement of ...

The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn’t buy companies it’s not going to use. Meaning ...