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Look, Google Maps is fine. It’s arguably even great—probably one of the most-opened apps on lots of our phones and absolutely one of the most indispensable. Google Maps holds oceans of opinions about ...

Google and Yahoo began sharing the code that runs their mapping services with outside developers this week in the hopes that programmers will create new applications to expand the range of Internet ...

Google Maps appeared to be experiencing a global outage on Friday afternoon, with users around the world reporting the service was down and maps were not loading. DownDetector, a site that tracks ...

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...

In recent years, the increasing use and sophistication of Internet sites has had important effects on personal injury litigation. Perhaps most significantly, materials on a party's Facebook account ...

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We all know Google likes acquiring companies and Google-fying them, but that’s not the case with today’s acquisition of Waze. The Israel-based crowd-sourced mapping app has given its rose to Google ...

Google has been accused of forcing Motorola to drop Skyhook's mapping technology for its own, as well as violating patents held by Skyhook. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, ...

Google is taking on South Korea's government, arguing that national-security laws unfairly restrict its map service in the country. The WSJ's Jonathan Cheng explains why. Google parent Alphabet Inc.