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Agility, Cupcakes and the Rise of the Customer as Designer
Amazon and Google dominate not only based on the new features they introduce, but also on the features they ditch based on customer feedback.
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Vistaprint Takes Aim at Local Markets
With a name like Vistaprint, your mind is probably quick to go toward business cards, flyers and other paper products. But the company is more into online marketing these days, and it’s latest effort is all about cashing in on the local scene. The effort is called Local Listings
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How to Map for Success - Literally
It's a bald-faced sales pitch, for sure. Here is this map publishing platform pitching the idea of the importance of bespoke maps on company websites. Not just saying that good maps are important.
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Google Gives Businesses More Mapped Data Visualization Options
Google has added new business data visualization capabilities to its map-making engine with the release of Google Maps Engine Pro. The new tool will enable small businesses to map their data and import client information into maps that can be edited, analyzed and shared.
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Google Maps Set to Display Ads
Google's mega popular Maps app is ready to enable advertisements, the company announced, and relevant local listings will pop up at the bottom of the page when a search is performed inside the mobile app. Mobile Maps = Hyper Local Results This move makes a ton of sense for
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Apple Acquires Locationary to Boost Maps App Credibility
As Google ramps up the pressure in the mapping app space with a new version of its Maps app for iOS devices, Apple is still on the back foot, acquiring to add more relevant data to its offering. Which Maps App Gets Your 'X'? Just days after the launch of
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Google Maps 2.0 Arrives for iPad With Indoor Maps and Live Traffic Updates
Google's latest Maps update is packed with features to challenge Apple's own iOS mapping app, including improved iPad support, better travel and traffic information plus improved indoor coverage. For A Better View of the Street The version 2.
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Google Directs Traffic App Waze into the Buy Lane
Google has announced the acquisition of social mapping app Waze for an undisclosed amount, and for now, the Isreal based development team will remain in place, a company blog post noted. Google Maps Undisputed Leader We liken this buy to the Facebook/Instagram deal. While we don't know if Google
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Google I/O: Cool New Features for Gmail, Maps, Google+, plus Multi-Platform SSO
It’s that time of the year, when the entire Googleverse points toward the Google I/O developers conference now taking place in San Francisco and attempts to digest the outpouring of Googleness treats.
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Google's Tips for Getting the Best From Its iPhone Maps App
Google's Maps app for the iPhone has been a huge hit this month with 10 million downloads and being credited with boosting iOS and saving Christmas (maybe). Google is now sharing some hints and tips for those still experimenting with it.
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Google Maps App Launches for Apple iPhone
Having struggled with its own Maps implementation and lost a lot of goodwill in the process, Apple has finally approved the app that it kicked off the iPhone, arch-rival Google Maps is back on iOS.
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A Week in Google: AdMob Joins AdWords, Chrome Hits Windows 8 Metro and More
Google powers on with updates and innovations across its smorgasbord of businesses, with tweaks to its ad network and getting ready for Windows 8. It has also added a Trusted Stores logo for Web merchants, but the company is still dogged by long-running legal wrangles over its Street View feature.
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New Google vs. Apple Maps: Effects on Users and Content?
In response to the mere rumor that Apple was doing something fancy with its maps application for iOS6, Google has rushed to respond, sending fleets of planes into the skies to take oblique photos for better 3D maps.
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A Week in Google: Are 100 Million Google+ Users Still Wrong?
With all the news of Facebook's IPO this week, Google's still-fledgling social service marched over another user milestone as the improvements and other changes in the Google ecosystem keep on coming.
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