Acquisitions

Apple revealed at the end of its 2013 fiscal year that it had made 15 strategic acquisitions during the period. While some of those are likely to have taken place in the 2012 calendar year, the fact remains that 2013 was Apple’s most acquisitive year ever. That compares against the five known acquisitions from fiscal 2012.

While Apple hasn’t disclosed all of its deals, a number of them have come to light. Mapping companies were the main theme of Apple’s acquisitions as the company worked to dig itself out of the hole it made last year.

WiFiSLAM focuses on indoor location technology. Locationary specialized in crowdsourced local business data. HopStop developed transit direction apps for cities, as did Embark. BroadMap is another location startup that Apple quietly acquired earlier this year.

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