Posts Tagged ‘TechCrunch’

Waze Featured in TechCrunch, Thanks to Onavo

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

TechCrunch recently reported that Waze is the only app to have gained “meaningful marketshare” in the weeks following Tim Cook’s apology for glitches in Apple Maps.

The findings came as a result of a report released by Onavo, an innovative startup that’s developed a data-compression app which saves users unnecessary data usage on their smartphones.

Onavo measured map usage across a sample set 100,000 U.S. iPhone users. According to TechCrunch:

Many apps including Microsoft’s Bing, MapQuest and Waze saw a 60 percent increase in daily active usage after Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for glitches in the company’s new app.

Despite this uptick, the marketshare of these apps is so small that only one app saw a game-changing increase in marketshare. That was Waze, the crowd-sourced mapping app that helps users see traffic in real-time.

For those interested in saving on their data usage without changing the way they use their phone, Onavo uses data compression technology and analytics to help you get up to 5 times more from your data plan.

Onavo can be downloaded for free on the iPhone and Android.

Waze is making a buzz out there

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

titlesFollowing our participation at DEMO 09, waze has received a string of great press that we wanted to share with you. We’ve recently been covered by TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, CNet and BoingBoing, to name a few. Here’s a bit of what MG Siegler, of TechCrunch, had to say about us:

Turn-by-turn navigation was one of the features that iPhone users were most looking forward to with the release of the iPhone 3.0 software. Unfortunately, as users quickly found out, turn-by-turn meant either significantly more expensive apps, or a monthly fee. Not only does Waze do it for free, but it offers an interesting gaming element to boot.

And in terms of press, another great item we had a few weeks ago was this feature on waze that ran on Slate.com’s The Big Money site. When you have a moment, hop over there and check it out – it gives a great big-picture perspective on the landscape from which waze came…