After spending $1 billion on Instagram last year to keep pace with the mobile photo explosion, Facebook is now reportedly jumping into entirely new territory by spending a similar amount on the popular social driving app Waze.
The quality of map apps have improved a great deal in two years.
What if you could instantly change car navigation maps for other drivers whenever you encountered a closed road?
Guest Post Apple Maps was the best thing ever to happen to Google Maps.
The Apple acquisition rumor this week was Waze, the crowdsourced mapping and traffic app. The only problem? Waze would only slow Apple down. There is a company, however, that could help Apple almost immediately.
Yes, it's a mobile advertising platform -- but it's mobile advertising with a fresh coat of paint.
Waze has been on a roll with its free crowdsourced GPS navigation apps, but today the company is getting even more social with an update that could change the way you drive forever.
Jiujitsu is the art of using your opponent's strengths against them. Apple may be applying precisely that strategy against Google in the middle of its seeming Maps debacle.
Since its launch in 2009, Waze has enjoyed a remarkable trajectory to the world’s largest crowdsourced traffic information service.
People-powered traffic and navigation application Waze is mightier than ever after having doubled in size in six months. Today, the four-year-old company celebrates 20 million members who’ve accumulated more than 3.2 billion miles of on-the-road time with Waze in tow.…
Just in time for the Summer driving season, driving app Waze is today embarking on bold new territory: crowdsourcing the best gas prices.
With the latest version of the free Waze app, launching today, you’ll be able to find gas …
The mobile industry is at an exciting stage: There are enough smartphone customers that there’s a huge field of opportunity for device makers, carriers, and app makers, but the market is still fragmented enough that no one company dominates. In …
In an effort to cut driving distractions even further, the crowdsourced driving app Waze today has added the ability for fully hands-free voice control to report traffic situations — bringing Siri-like functionality to the free app before Apple has released …
Thanks to its popular crowdsourced navigation app, Waze is sitting on a pile of valuable traffic data. Today the company announced an intriguing use for that data goldmine: powering your local TV station’s traffic reports.
Waze is launching a program …
There’s no stopping Waze, the crowdsourced app that offers free GPS navigation. The company announced today that it has raised another $30 million in growth funding, led by Horizon Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Waze also confirmed that …
Waze, a mobile traffic and navigation app, is giving Los Angeles commuters a new weapon in the battle against bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Doomsday scenarios have been all the rage this year, but one is actually going to happen: Carmageddon — the …
The map rumor mill is spinning.
Some digging done today by Arnold Kim at MacRumors.com into Apple’s legal disclaimer for iOS 5 reveals licenses from third-party companies that provide mapping data and services. Could this be evidence that Apple is …
