Apple and its developers are announcing a lot of apps being retooled for its new smart watch, launching next week, but one particular app caught my eye. Crowdsoured public transit app… Read more »
Telenav hasn’t just hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast away from Microsoft; the navigation company plans to wean itself entirely off of proprietary cartography, relying solely on OSM’s collaborative, crowdsourced and freely… Read more »
Google’s acquisition of Waze is especially bad news for Apple, which continues to struggle to iron out the wrinkles in its own Maps offering followed an error-plagued launch nearly a year… Read more »
Four years after it launched at our Mobilize conference, Waze is finally sold to Google for about a billion. It certainly was a windfall for its early investors. And one surprising… Read more »
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and… Read more »
Facebook may not be buying Waze after all, but the Israel-based mapping data company is rolling out a new Facebook Events integration that will let users of its app coordinate travel… Read more »
Reports that Google has entered a bidding war with Facebook over the social-mapping service Waze may be just a gambit by the company to force a better deal, but there are… Read more »
Crowd-sourced mapping and navigation app Waze is getting a lot more social by allowing people to share their location, request rides and see which friends are navigating to the same place… Read more »