Google Confirms it Paid Nearly $1 Billion for Waze

[exfileme]

Google confirmed how much it actually paid for the social GPS service.

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[back_by_demand]

Way to go, Windows Mobile but not Windows Phone?

 

[capt_taco]

Looks like their older versions of the app supported all the lesser OSes, but they dropped everything other than Android and iOS in the new app.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Google needs to do something, FAST since destroying their Navigation app. About a week ago, I went to use Navigation, only to find just Maps. Navigation was integrated into Maps and now there's a bunch of steps involved to get to Navigation. I hate it.

 

[kartu]

That's 50$ per Waze user, ykes.

 

[slacka]

I love the idea of crowdsourcing your speed to generate real-time traffic information. The other crowdsourcing features this brings don't seem very useful to me and done by Google better. Also, not sure this is worth 1 Billion! Seems like another Summly mistake.