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Foursquare Unlocks a Badge for Waze

Waze, the navigation and traffic-information app, offers something for the driver as well as the gamer, encouraging them to help it map new streets with a Pac Man-style simulation that awards points...

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Waze Raises Major Funding to Drive Social Traffic Apps

Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures Hong Kong and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have invested $30 million in social traffic and navigation company Waze. Waze now has seven million users, up from the...

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Mary Meeker: 81 Percent of Users of Top Web Sites Are Outside the U.S.

Mary Meeker’s periodic rapid-fire macro-views of the tech industry are closely watched. We got our hands on the Kleiner Perkins partner’s latest slide deck prior to her presenting it at the Web 2.0...

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Driving Home a Better Future in the Connected Car

In the future cars will be shared, able to avoid traffic and, above all, driverless. Or at least that’s the hope of several of the speakers at last week’s MLOVE conference in Monterey. Looking the...

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Mary Meeker Explains The Internet – Without Slides (Video)

We all hear it every day: The Internet and digital technologies are changing everything. It’s become one of those big pronouncements that tends to end a bad conversation or start a good one. But few...

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Waze Unfazed by Apple's Move Into Crowdsourced Traffic

Even as most Apple enthusiasts sit back and cheer new features coming into the operating system, there are often a handful of third-party developers cringing as their products are being usurped. That...

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With Apple’s Maps Misstep, Other Nav Apps Get Their Turn

We’ve come to expect a lot from our smartphones, and that includes decent maps. Apple’s decision to remove Google Maps from the iPhone 5 and its latest software (iOS 6) in favor of its own fledgling...

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Moovit Powers Public Transit App With the Wisdom of the Crowd

Waze, the crowdsourced navigation app for car drivers, has been one of the breakout start-ups of the past year. Now a different company with a similar pedigree is trying to do the same thing for public...

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Dive Into Mobile Adds Google's Schmidt, Waze's Bardin and Twitter's Sippey

We’ve added some exciting speakers for our D: Dive Into Mobile conference on April 15 and 16 in New York. While much of our lineup remains intact from October’s hurricaned-out event, there are a few...

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HopStop Now Navigates Transit With the Wisdom of Crowds

Mobile transit app HopStop has redesigned its iPhone app to incorporate real-time updates about delays and other information reported by its users, from within the app. Though other services like...

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As Mapping Costs Rise, Waze's Volunteer Army Will Give It an Edge (Video)

Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that the crowdsourced mapping company is going to have some key advantages versus much bigger Google as consumers become increasingly more...

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Google, Firefox and the Fastest-Growing Phone Company in China -- What You...

D: Dive Into Mobile — Global Edition kicked off Monday with an afternoon of interviews that touched on everything from driving directions to the future of mobile operating systems. Here’s a handful of...

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Maps Are for Mobile What Search Is for the Web, Says Waze CEO Noam Bardin...

Of course the CEO of a mobile mapping company is going to say maps are super important. But Waze CEO Noam Bardin has an interesting way of putting it. “What search is for the Web, maps are for mobile,”...

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Will Waze Be Facebook's Next Instagram?

As has been widely reported and according to sources we have confirmed it with, Facebook is indeed in serious talks to buy Waze for $1 billion, the social traffic application that helps drivers...

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A Waze Buy Would Put Facebook on Yet Another Collision Course With Google --...

Buying crowdsourced mapping program Waze would do more than just give Facebook another service to offer mobile users of its social network. Adding mapping and traffic capabilities could also help the...

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Four Reasons Why Apple Might Not Be Interested in Waze

When rumors circulated earlier this year that Apple was mulling a bid to acquire social navigation app outfit Waze, the company quickly and aggressively quashed them. Within 24 hours of the rumors...

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Google's Upcoming Maps App Includes Smarter Venue Search, Waze-Like Rerouting

It wasn’t that long ago that iPhone users were cheering about the release of Google Maps for iOS. Now Google is readying its next update to the Maps mobile app, which will be rolled out for both...

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Waze May Be on the Block, but Apple Didn't Try to Buy It

“We did not [make a bid for Waze].” – Apple CEO Tim Cook at the D11 conference, regarding the social mapping company Waze, which is currently in acquisition talks with Facebook and was rumored to have...

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Facebook Acquisition Talks With Waze Fall Apart

After months of negotiations, Facebook is no longer in talks to acquire Waze, the Israel-based social mapping and navigation startup, according to sources familiar with the matter. The two companies...

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This Time It's Real: Google to Buy Waze And Keep It Independent

Google is very close to acquiring Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app, according to two sources close to the situation. While no deal has been inked yet, the acquisition is likely to be finalized in...

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