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Apple in talks with Foursquare for maps data-sharing

Looks like the alarm bells have started ringing at Apple following the tremendous debut Google Maps made on the iOS App Store. Apple is said to be in talks Foursquare… Looks like the alarm bells have started ringing at Apple following the tremendous debut Google Maps made on the iOS App Store. Apple’s Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is said to have been meeting with Foursquare representatives over the past few weeks to determine how the social network uses data to find locations and business listings. Foursquare could soon be sharing maps data with Apple Apple replaced Google’s mapping solution in favour of its own Maps app on iOS 6 in September, but the app turned out to be quite buggy and showed erroneous data such as incorrect city names, warped streets and lot of missing information.

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