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Apple SVP Eddy Cue Fires Manager Responsible for Maps?

Posted November 27, 2012 at 6:19pm by iClarified · 11553 views
Apple SVP Eddy Cue has reportedly fired Richard Williamson, the man who oversaw the the company's mapping team, according to Bloomberg.

Richard Williamson, who oversaw the mapping team, was fired by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information wasn’t yet public. Cue, who took over last month as part of a management shakeup, is seeking advice from outside mapping-technology experts and prodding digital maps provider TomTom NV (TOM2) to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple.

It's also said that part of the reason behind Scott Forstall's removal as SVP was due to his part in the Apple Maps debacle.

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