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Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:50 am
by banished
WeeeZer14 wrote:When we don't hear anything we let our imagination fill in the blanks :lol:
True. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:28 am
by banished
Google announced they paid $966 million (US) to acquire Waze.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575956 ... quisition/

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:10 pm
by banished
Sounds like Noam could have written it, except it seems to put a stranglehold on the ability of either company to integrate functionality even where it makes sense to go so. On the NA side, the G-maps are now in the WME and G-nav users see Waze user hazard reports, so this is a bit befuddling. I'm likely not reading it correctly.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:02 pm
by bedo2991
Congratulation to the Waze team, this has been a great start-up story.

Don't know what the future will bring, but I really feel like Sheldon Cooper by now ( )

Would you please let us know very soon what is the destiny of the maps we've been creating in the past 3 years? What does Google want to do with them? What will they do with two maps and two map editors?

Till that moment I'm not going to edit anything else, just to be sure I'm not wasting time.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:42 pm
by cameraguy
Glad to hear that Waze decided to join Google and not Facebook.

I looking forward to see some great improvements in the future. I hope to see the traffic updates will be combined with Google traffic updates.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:49 pm
by CBenson
I hadn't seen this before: http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/merger ... gle-iu.pdf
Didn't know the UK had this much influence (not that I understand how much influence this is) on the deal.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:56 pm
by CBenson
I'm guessing not as they are doing it. Maybe waze will provide that data to anyone for a price.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:06 pm
by CBenson
CBenson wrote:I hadn't seen this before: http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/merger ... gle-iu.pdf
Didn't know the UK had this much influence (not that I understand how much influence this is) on the deal.
Seems the review is completed.

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 11:20 am
by CBenson
somewherez wrote:AFAIK Google gets its traffic info in the UK from one of the mobile phone operators.
Why do you think this?

Re: Waze joins Google

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:47 pm
by cbwierda
Now we finally know.

Good luck going forward and thanks for everything up to now.

I think this will be good for Waze and the community. Server infrastructure will no longer be a significant issue. I can see some ways to use the existing Google Map and the existing Waze Map Editors to make a combined product that will be better than either could be in isolation.

Mazel Tov!