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Apple hiring additional engineers for Maps team, will include “Frequent Locations” feature in iOS 7

It’s Apple’s jobs page that tends to point to where things are going. Per AppleInsider, Apple is actively recruiting for scores of new full time jobs related to Maps. The company also plans to enlist the support of its installed base of 400 million iOS users with an opt-in invitation to “Help Improve Maps” in […]

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Apple apparently ramping up hiring for iWatch design, device could see late 2014 launch

Apple looks to be staffing up to build the iWatch. Per The Mac Observer and the Financial Times, Apple is apparently hiring more employees for its wearable technology efforts to address issues that will likely push the rumored iWatch launch out to the end of 2014. Sources said Apple has been aggressively hiring new employees […]

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Apple building GPU team from former AMD engineers according to LinkedIn profile spot checks

This could lead to something interesting. Per MacRumors, Apple has hired at least a dozen former AMD graphics engineers for its Orlando offices in recent months, according to a spot check of employees’ LinkedIn profiles. The majority of hires, which include a graphics architect, hardware engineer and others, occurred in January of this year. AMD […]

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Rumor: AppleCare training schedule now pointing towards June launch of Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

No one ever said it was easy to keep a secret. Per AppleInsider, the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) division of AppleCare is allegedly hiring and training new staff on certain aspects of Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, possibly hinting that a release date is soon to arrive. According to an unnamed […]

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Apple posts job listing focused on improving cloud services

When the job listings go up, things become interesting. Per AppleInsider, Apple is building a small team to write software which will lay the groundwork for the company’s future Web services, which it has advertised as “the future” of its cloud-based offerings. This week the company posted a new job listing for the position of […]