Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday June 9, 2013 @09:05PM from the owning-the-road dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google and Israeli start-up Waze have agreed in principle on a deal in which the search engine giant will buy the road traffic information sharing application for $1.3 billion. Waze, which claims more than 40 million users, describes itself as an app bringing together 'the world's largest community of drivers who work together to fight traffic, and save time and gas money on their daily commute.' There have been previous reports that first Apple and then Facebook wanted to acquire the Israeli start-up."

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Re: Geotarding? by mrvan · 2013-06-10 01:42 · Score: 1, Troll

Sorry, I messed that one up big time! It should be:
Well, if you live in Israel, Google maps doesn't have streetnames for almost half of your capital, or for your second largest city. Nor, for that matter, for the fourth and fifth largest city in your country.
And if you deny that those cities are in your country, could you kindly inform your government so that they can withdraw their troops?