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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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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