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  • Apple Maps to tell you to refine location by scanning

    With iOS 14, Apple is going to update Apple Maps with some important new features, such as cycling directions, electric vehicle routing and curated guides. But the app is also going to learn one neat trick.In dense areas where you can’t get a precise location, Apple Maps will prompt More

    Apple Maps to tell you to refine location by scanning the skyline
  • Four perspectives: Will Apple trim App Store fees?

    The fact that Apple takes a 30% cut of subscriptions purchased via the App Store isn’t news. But since the company threatened to boot email app Hey from the platform last week unless its developers paid the customary tribute, the tech world and lawmakers are giving Apple’s revenue share a More

    Four perspectives: Will Apple trim App Store fees?
  • China’s GPS competitor is now fully launched

    For decades, the United States has had a monopoly on positioning, navigation, and timing technology with its Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of satellites operated by the military that today provides the backbone for location on billion of devices worldwide.As those technologies have become not just key to military More

    Chinas GPS competitor is now fully launched
  • Apple unveils iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur features for

    Apple will roll out a range of new features and improvements that are aimed at users in India, China and other international markets with its yearly updates to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems, it unveiled today.iOS 14, which is rolling out to developers today and will reach general users More

    Apple unveils iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur features for India, China and other international markets
  • Square acquires European peer-to-peer payment app Verse

    Square acquired Verse, a Spanish peer-to-peer payment app that works across Europe. Terms of the deals are undisclosed. According to Crunchbase, Verse had raised $37.6 million from Spark Capital, eVentures and Greycroft Partners and others.Square has attracted a ton of user with Cash App, its peer-to-peer payment app that More

    Square acquires European peer-to-peer payment app Verse