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Apple News: Apple Acquires Transit Service HopStop To Further Improve Its Maps App Apple has acquired transit service HopStop.com to improve its mapping service, reports Bloomberg. News of the deal comes just hours after the reported purchase of Locationary, a company that focuses on location crowdsourcing. Apple Inc. (AAPL) agreed to buy online transit-navigation service HopStop.com Inc., people with knowledge of the deal said, seeking to improve mapping tools after…

Apple News: Gartner: Apple’s Macs will be as accepted as Windows PCs by 2015 By the end of next year, Apple OS X-based Mac laptops will be as well accepted by IT pros as their Microsoft Windows-based counterparts, according to Gartner. Driven by Apple’s efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the iPhone’s, iPad’s and iPod Touch’s iOS, more users will bring OS X devices to…

Apple News: Apple analysts: Stupid or lazy? Did Wall Street bother to look at the calendar? One of the mysteries that lingers from Apple’s (AAPL) most recent quarterly report – when the company failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations and its stock suffered its worst one-day loss in four years – was whether the analysts who set those expectations were aware that the quarter was one week shorter than the…