Tag Archives: Route planning software

FTC probes Google’s acquisition of Waze

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Now that Google has bought turn-by-turn GPS application, Waze, it is now time for the critics, a.k.a. the Federal Trade Commision or FTC, to do its job of conducting an antitrust investigation on the...

Google Purchases Waze

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Google has finally sealed the deal and acquired the site named Waze. Facebook and Apple were earlier suitors for the Israel-based site and both couldn’t make it or backed out. That cleared the way...
    


Google Is Acquiring Waze

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The speculation is over as Waze has decided to choose Google over Facebook as its main buyer. For months on end the battle for acquiring the rights to Waze, the social traffic app, was raging in all...
    


Google to Outbid Facebook for Waze Acquisition

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While Facebook is reputed to be willing to cough up over $1 billion in cold hard cash for Waze, Google is not one of those wimpy companies to be left behind in the dust. Waze is a very lucrative...
    


Facebook to Buy Waze for $1 Billion Dollar

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Facebook and Waze have made a financial exchange that benefits both in the process. The story is that Facebook wanted to buy the social mapping/traffic app maker Waze and had been looking forward to...
    


Google Maps Now Available for North Korea

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Google has announced this week that it has revised its Google Maps application adding information for North Korea. Previously, North Korea was blank offering no information. The new update brings...