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...that if elected, she would appoint regulators who were committed to undoing Facebook’s mergers with those two apps, as well as Amazon’s acquisitions of Whole Foods and Zappos, and Google’s purchases of Waze...
...A handful of transport apps including Waze, BlaBlaCar, Uber and Chauffeur Privé reported soaring volumes as commuters turned to alternatives....
...They include the 20 per cent of Chinese retail sales that is accounted for by ecommerce, much of it mobile, to apps such as Waze, which combines mapping with drivers’ reports of traffic patterns....
...he said, adding that Waze had benefited from Google’s search technology. “I think there’s great efficiencies that could occur from a lot of these....
...Uber has struggled to penetrate the Israeli market, which is dominated by taxi-ordering service Gett, and Moovit and Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, which offer carpooling services....
...But Waze is not always a smooth experience. In Israel, it works like a charm — as it does in other developed countries....
...(Alphabet owns Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Street View and the navigation app Waze, which tracks real-time traffic)....
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...It wants to go one better than Waze — by aiming to beat Google in the race to building driverless cars....
...“The soldiers were apparently using Waze,” said Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s defence minister, on Tuesday....
...“We let Waze run independently to make sure it is able to innovate as quickly as possible. We will merge things down the road,” he said....
...Earlier this week, Alphabet, a leader in driverless car research, launched a carpooling test programme through its mapping app Waze that matches commuters and passengers in the San Francisco Bay Area, potentially...
...Alphabet has been piloting a carpooling system among users of its mapping app, Waze, and has looked at launching a separate app for transportation....
...Apple is going to Washington as it seeks congressional support for its FBI stance, Google’s autonomous car has collided with a bus, Waze has led to a fatal clash in a refugee camp....
...The Big Read reports on six tech stars set for bigger things…or perhaps a sale to a US company, like Google’s acquisition of Waze....
...“We took the commodity part of the business and let others make the innovation,” Mr Keogh said of the industry’s failure to create its own Waze....
...Another Israeli company, Waze, used crowdsourced maps in its popular navigation app, which was acquired by Google for $1.1bn in 2013 in one of the country’s biggest technology deals....
...“May God obliterate their name”, a Waze user added in Hebrew on the location of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem....
...Waze said that, for now, it had no plans to expand its “small trial” of RideWith outside Israel....
...Waze, the Israeli traffic app acquired by Google for about $1bn in 2013, collects its information from millions of smartphone users who are signed into the service....
...Some have worked spectacularly well, such as Waze, the navigation app that allows drivers to generate real-time, crowdsourced maps and to alert drivers to congestion or accidents, and was bought by Google...
...Google has other assets that it could bring to bear on its urban ambitions: driverless cars, the Nest “smart homes” division that makes thermostats and smoke alarms, the Waze app for tracking traffic congestion...
...That sets the service apart from other start-ups born in Israel, such as the mapping service Waze, which was bought by Google for about $1bn. 4....
...“Is this a bigger failure, or more of a success than Waze?” he asks....
...Navigation app company Waze was sold to Google for more than $1bn and Apple bought 3D sensor company PrimeSense for about $350m....
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