Tag Archives : Waze

Apple has been pulling all stops to improve its Maps app after the debacle of its Maps app, Apple has reportedly bought crowd-sourced location data company Locationary. Google is continuously improving it’s popular Google Maps app, Google’s acquisition of Waze, the GPS navigation app was a step in this direction. Locationary is located out of Canada and focuses on improving searching for [...]

Facebook no longer seem to be in the race to buy the Silicon Valley  startup, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told  Allthings’sD Walt Mossberg at All Things D’s D11 on Wednesday that Facebook isn’t getting into proprietary Facebook mapping software. Google also reportedly was in the hunt and had offered $1 billion to win over the owners of Waze. The report further added that “the [...]