Google buys Waze to bring its social data to Google Maps

A couple weeks back, we took some time to talk to you about Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app that compiles user-submitted data to let you find the fastest, least congested, and overall best routes around. At the time, rumors were flying all over concerning Waze’s interest in being acquired by a heavyweight like Facebook. As it turns out, Google manage to slide in with the winning bid, and today announced its acquisition of Waze. So, what does this mean for the app? You may remember from our earlier look that we had ...

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