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Facebook close to buying Waze for up to $1 billion

article published on 9 May, 2013

Facebook is reportedly close to buying Israeli start-up Waze for a reported fee of $800 million - $1 billion. The news was broken by business daily Calcalist, reporting that due diligence is underway and a term sheet was signed. Waze specializes in satellite navigation, and uses members' smartphones to generate maps and traffic data. In October 2012, it partnered with Facebook to ... [ read the full article ]

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A5J4DX
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_ 		9. May 2013 @ 16:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
its crap google maps ftw!
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xtago
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_ 		10. May 2013 @ 01:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
mmm I wionder what facebook would do with waze, I do use it here and there the routing isn't great but waze could be be better with a large company that has the money and the servers able to handle the amount of data going around the place.

I guess this was the reason why they did the facebook link up thing instead of fixing up some parts of the app and map editor.
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