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Weighing the Importance of Google's Waze Win
2013-06-18 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
After months of courtship, social navigation app Waze ultimately chose to partner -- for $1 billion-plus -- with Google, rejecting Facebook and Apple. The price tag shows how valuable Waze has become, and that's to say nothing of the overtures it received from the world's tech giants. "I think what's really surprising is that Facebook allowed the deal to die," said tech correspondent David Shamah.
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Consumer group wants antitrust agencies to block Google's Waze deal
2013-06-12 17:50:06| InfoWorld: Top News
U.S. antitrust agencies should block Google's proposed acquisition of crowdsourced mapping app Waze because the deal would take away Google's major competitor in mobile maps, consumer group Consumer Watchdog said.
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Waze Joins Google for shared vision of a global mapping service
2013-06-12 05:35:02| Location-Based Services (LBS) Zone
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Why Waze matters for Android
2013-06-12 01:44:33| CNET News.com
Google's purchase of the crowd-sourced maps company spells big pay-offs for Android users. [Read more]
Google confirms Waze acquisition
2013-06-11 19:37:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Google has confirmed on its official blog that it closed the acquisition of community-based traffic and navigation app company Waze, without disclosing a purchase price. Earlier reports had placed the transaction at USD 1.1 billion to USD 1.3 billion. Google's vice president for geographic systems, Brian McClendon, writes that Waze's product development team will remain in Israel and operate separately for now. Google will use the company's technology to enhance Google Maps with traffic update features to help drivers "outsmart traffic". It will work closely with the Waze community, described as "the DNA of this app".
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