After weeks of speculation, Google has announced that the Isra lwa arabs for illicit arms kaartendienst Waze has taken over. How much the search giant exactly has paid for Waze is not published, although there are rumours about an amount around $ 1 billion.
Google reports on one of his blogs the acquisition of Waze. The search giant has let us know that the team behind the Waze app in Israel will remain active and provisional independently will continue to work on the software. Nevertheless, says Google in the future-the possibilities of Waze, and in particular the traffic and wants to integrate it with its Maps service. Waze, in turn, would be able to take advantage of the search capabilities of Google.
The acquisition does not come as a surprise; there are going to be for a few weeks already rumors about a possible acquisition of Waze by Google. Also Facebook and Apple would interest have had and have interviews conducted with Waze.
Waze makes use of map data provided by the users of the service quite can be adjusted. Information is displayed on, for example, gasoline prices and traffic. Also speed traps with the help of crowdsourcing on the map. The software is available on iOS and Android.
