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MapQuest Surges After Refusing Trump's Lake Ontario Rename

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MapQuest has become the top free iPhone app on Apple's App Store charts in Canada and fourth on the U.S. chart after refusing to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' following a U.S. President Donald Trump executive order. The company saw a 50x increase in app usage and hundreds of thousands of new downloads since its decision.

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    MapQuest finds its way back to prominence thanks to uproar over Google...

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    MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing 'Lake America' Change Ma...

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    MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing 'Lake America' Change ht...

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    MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada an...

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