Apple acquires web mapping firm Poly9, probably has something up its sleeve

engadget.com — Per usual, it seems as if this deal has happened in the dark of the night, but thankfully for the curious among us, it's a bit difficult to disguise a caravan of humans escaping Qubec and fleeing to Cupertino. According to a report in The Sun as well as an independent confirmation on our end, Apple has picked up a small Canadian firm by the name of Poly9. As of now, every last employee has been relocated to California, with the couple who declined left to find other work in the Great White North. Poly9's official website is also blanked out, but in the past, the company has been credited with developing loads of web-based mapping programs as well as APIs for a handful of monolithic clients like Microsoft, Yahoo!, NORAD and MSNBC. Generally speaking, Apple tends to integrate its purchases into the workflow at a rather rapid clip, so we're actually expected something to come of this in the not-too-distant future. What, exactly, remains to be seen. [Thanks, Anonymous]Apple acquires web mapping firm Poly9, probably has something up its sleeve originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkMacDailyNews | The Sun |Email this|Comments Jul 14, 2010 View in Crawl 4