By Jessica Roy and Kelly Faircloth 5/09 8:00am

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Booting Up: Now Rumors Have Facebook Thinking of Buying Waze

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer earned $68.6 million last year. Think about that while you’re scraping together change to refill your metrocard. [Bloomberg]

Rumor has it that Facebook is looking into buying mobile map app Waze for up to $1B. Waze really gets around–last we heard it was dating Apple. [TechCrunch]

Microsoft might be mulling a $1 billion purchase of Nook Media LLC, its joint venture with Barnes and Noble. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, guys. [TechCrunch]

Time and Google have teamed up to produce Timelapse, a new package that shows how the Earth’s surface has changed over the last thirty years. (Spoiler: Not for the better, if you like nature.)  [Time]

Can’t patent software in New Zealand any more, sorry. [Forbes]

By Kelly Faircloth 1/03 8:00am

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Booting Up: Apple Might Buy Itself a Solution to the Maps Mess

Scuttlebutt says Apple might be interested in acquiring navigational app Waze. If only Apple had a time machine that would let them do so six months ago. [TechCruch]

Twitter is worth about $11 billion these days, if you judge based on how it trades on the secondary market. [Business Insider]

Google+ is growing–largely because users of Gmail, YouTube and the like have to sign up. [Wall Street Journal]

Speaking of THE GOOG, that antitrust investigation might finally come to an end today. [Bloomberg]

What Anonymous managed to dig up and how in the Steubenville, Ohio rape case, including that video (which will destroy your faith in humanity, consider yourself warned). [The Atlantic Wire]

By Steve Huff 9/20/12 1:15pm

There's a Map for That

(Original here.)

iOS6 Maps are So Bad They Inspired Their Own Mocking Tumblr

A few days ago Waze CEO Noam Bardin kvetched that Apple’s native mapping app would stink up iOS 6. If The Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr is any indication, he was right.

The screengrabs posted on the site come from iPhones and iPads. While many are self-explanatory, some come with pithy commentary, like this image, captioned, “Freiburg, Germany. Seem to be authentic World War II sattelite  (sic) images”: Read More

By Steve Huff 9:34pm

There's a Map for That

Apple iPhone 5. (Photo: twitter.com/DiarioLaPrensa)

Apple Affiliate Waze Claims iOS 6 Maps Suck [UPDATE]

Inside Google HQ’s vast and endlessly churning maw there’s probably some schadenfreude tonight, as it looks like Apple’s iOS6 replacement for the Google Maps app might be a turd in the new iPhone’s punch bowl. That’s the story from Waze CEO Noam Bardin, anyway.

BGR reports that Waze supplies traffic info for Apple’s new maps. Perhaps because Apple is actually relying more on TomTom for mapping services than Waze, Mr. Bardin has some strong opinions about Apple’s choices: Read More