{"id":66878,"date":"2012-12-13T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66878"},"modified":"2012-12-13T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T10:06:14","slug":"apple-to-acquire-tomtom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/66878-apple-to-acquire-tomtom.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple to acquire TomTom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is reportedly interested in acquiring mapping service TomTom in order to help with its (Apple&#8217;s) unsuccessful Maps App.<\/p>\n<p>Hand Slob, a Rabobank International analyst, said that there is a 30% chance that Apple will make an offer on TomTom.<\/p>\n<p>Slob\u2019s reasoning was that Apple would be looking to acquire the Dutch company\u2019s mapping data to supplement its own Maps App.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom is valued at roughly $1.17 billion.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/51081-analyst-apple-may-make-an-offer-to-acquire-mapping-firm-tomtom.html\" target=\"_blank\">TechSpot <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google Maps app returns to iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/66858-google-maps-app-returns-to-iphone.html\">Google Maps app returns to iPhone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple fixes dangerous Australian map error\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/66646-apple-fixes-dangerous-australian-map-error.html\">Apple fixes dangerous Australian map error<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple Maps could be deadly: Australian police\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/66516-apple-maps-could-be-deadly-australian-police.html\">Apple Maps could be deadly: Australian police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands-based analyst suggest that Apple is looking to buy TomTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":52467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,16674,14119,7979,523],"class_list":["post-66878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-map-app","tag-maps","tag-quicknews","tag-tomtom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66904,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66878\/revisions\/66904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}