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Facebook deep in negotiations to acquire Waze

Facebook deep in negotiations to acquire Waze
  • Posted May 9, 2013, 9:30 AM by Dave LeClair | Filed in The Web, Software
  • Facebook is in advanced talks to purchase Israel-based navigation app Waze. The deal is reported to be in the same $800 million to $1 billion range the social network paid for Instagram, and is seen as another opportunity to bolster…

Apple may acquire Waze, the popular crowdsourced GPS app

Apple may acquire Waze, the popular crowdsourced GPS app
  • Posted January 3, 2013, 12:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Apple
  • Multiple sources have been cited in this report, claiming Apple is engaged in acquisition talks with Waze, a popular crowdsourced GPS app capable of providing turn-by-turn voice navigation. One pot hole in the road though is Waze's asking price of $750 million…

iOS 6 upgrades soar 29% following debut of Google Maps app

iOS 6 upgrades soar 29% following debut of Google Maps app
  • Posted December 19, 2012, 12:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
  • According to data furnished by MoPub and mulled over by TechCrunch, the number of iPhone users running iOS 6 jumped by 29 percent between December 11 and December 15. MoPub tracks over one billion ad impressions daily across many carriers and apps.

Street View to land on Google Maps' mobile website

Street View to land on Google Maps
  • Posted October 3, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • It looks as though Google plans to add Street View to its mobile browser-based version of Google Maps. The official announcement won't be made until tomorrow, but long-time WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg casually dropped word of the addition in…

Apple ditched Google Maps over voice navigation quarrel

Apple ditched Google Maps over voice navigation quarrel
  • Posted September 27, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Apple's controversial replacement of Google Maps with its own in-house mapping solution may have left some users scratching their heads, but journalists at AllThingsD believe they know why: the absence of voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions.

Wikipedia ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMaps after price change

Wikipedia ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMaps after price change
  • Posted April 6, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Citing synergistic principles with OpenStreetMaps and an end to Google's free ride for high-volume map users, Wikipedia has dropped Google Maps. The foundation has instead turned to OpenStreetMaps for its mapping needs, a UK-based, open source mapping website which has…

Google Maps gets real-time traffic, crowdsources Android GPS data

Google Maps gets real-time traffic, crowdsources Android GPS data
  • Posted March 30, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
  • Although traffic data has been available on Google Maps for quite some time, the traffic information delivered by the popular mapping service was frequently stale or incorrect. In fact, estimated arrival times with traffic were so frequently incorrect, Google actually…

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