{"id":946,"date":"2013-03-25T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/apple-buys-silicon-valley-startup-wifislam\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:45:19","slug":"apple-buys-silicon-valley-startup-wifislam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/apple-buys-silicon-valley-startup-wifislam\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Buys Silicon Valley Startup WiFiSlam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Apple has acquired a Silicon Valley startup, WiFiSlam, which makes mapping applications for smart phones.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apple confirmed the acquisition, but declined to give details. The news was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, which quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that Apple paid around $    20 million for the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple acquires smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,&#8221; an Apple spokesman told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>WiFiSlam develops technology that provides indoor tracking and similar services. Big tech companies such as Apple and Google have been racing to provide more and better map applications for users. Google&#8217;s application, Google Maps, is widely accessed on Google&#8217;s Android platform and rival Apple&#8217;s rival iOS platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/> Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not an original publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\">DisNaija.Com<\/a> network.<br \/> To visit the source, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/home\/2013\/03\/25\/apple-buys-silicon-valley-startup-wifislam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">here <\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-newspapers.disnaija.com\/\">Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online-nigeria.disnaija.com\/\">Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Your Opinion Counts. 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The news was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, which quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that Apple paid around $ 20 million for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[728,729,730,732,731,733],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}