The battle for the hottest mapping startup on the plane is finally over, and Google — the undisputed king of 21-century maps — has officially prevailed, purchasing the company for a reported $1.03 billion, apparently because the Tel Aviv-based Waze didn't want to relocate all the way to the belly of the Googleplex.
Facebook's $1 billion bid to buy the Silicon Valley map darling has reportedly fallen through, and COO Sheryl Sandberg insisted on Wednesday that Facebook isn't getting into proprietary mapping software. So how can the social network get in on the startup world's high-stakes space of the moment now that the perfect buy has vanished? Here are some options.
The Israeli mobile GPS startup Waze has another mega-suitor in Silicon Valley, with Google reportedly joining the bidding war and topping the $1 billion offer rumored to be coming from Facebook. What is it, really, about this mapping app that's drawing acquisition prices as high as — if not higher than — Instagram and Tumblr?
Facebook's in "advanced talks" to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up, for somewhere between $800 million and $1 billion, according to multiple sources at Calcalist and TechCrunch, making it the social media company's biggest acquisition to date.
Google may or may not introduce a new design for Google Maps at a conference next week, when the company will publicly discuss about "the future of Google Maps." But people are definitely complaining about the rumored design getting passed around the web today. Here's how.
This weekend sees an unfortunate coincidence: St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday. For most Americans, that doesn't matter. For those who live in places with alcohol restrictions under so-called "blue laws," that means you may need to plan ahead. And we're here to help.
Here's where the brands belonging to the two biggest beer companies on the planet, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, really come from. (What with the pending litigation and all, this is more like beer Risk than beer Monopoly.)
Here's a map that tells you where exactly 341,817,095 Americans reside.
What if the world were defined by its history? And what if that history was defined by Wikipedia? That's what this word-association map of each country on Earth illustrates.
This is the type of tool that will be fun for music lovers, diehard Stones fans, and amateur historians alike: maps of Rolling Stones tours starting with their first tour through was one of the biggest world tours in music history.
Choosing a vacation based on your current mood just got a lot easier, thanks to this new map from The Washington Post's Max Fisher.
Maps of America have recently looked red and blue, but this one is pure ink, with the names of famous authors and their geographic inspiration.
Nokia's HERE maps are, uh, here, available for the iPhone in the Apple store today, so it's time to see how the app stands up to both Apple's much-maligned native Maps and Google Maps for iPhone.
Google is on track to have an Apple compatible Maps app ready by the end of the year, a source tells The Guardian's Michael Grothaus, matching reports from earlier this year.
Nokia may have not been the most obvious choice when Apple CEO Tim Cook sent unhappy Maps users to competitors, but as The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal explains, the company has one huge advantage: An army of drivers.
Following the Apple's iOS 6 Maps letdown, some suggested Steve Jobs never would never have released such an inferior product. But "Apple insiders" have told Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Peter Burrows that an Apple-made mapping service was all his idea.
Despite Eric Schmidt saying Google isn't doing a Google Maps app for iPhone on Tuesday, that doesn't appear to be the case. The Google Maps app is coming, according to new reports, and it could be in the app store before Christmas.
Google has spoken: The company is not working on a maps app for the iPhone.
Apple knows it has a Maps issue, but the company is saying, "the more people use it, the better it will get." Unfortunately, as mapping technology explains, that fix won't solve its location data problem very soon.
While there is a lot to complain about vis-a-vis Apple Maps, we, as Americans, should really be upset with the new iOS 6 app for what it has done to many of our nation's most notable landmarks.
This afternoon at 1 p.m. EST Apple will release its updated operating system, iOS 6, but despite all the new bells and whistles we're a little anxious about immediately upgrading.
For its rumored upcoming Kindle Fire refresh, expected next week, Amazon will add maps functionality but it won't go with Google's popular offering, sources told Reuters' Alistair Barr.
Does your town have enough bars and restaurants? Real estate trends blog Trulia mapped out the metro areas with the highest concentration of restaurants and bars to help you find out.
Following Google's announcement of its enhanced maps last week, we expect Tim Cook will counter-back during his keynote today at the World Wide Developers Conference.
The latest front in the great Google-Apple war is to provide 3D maps on Smartphones, which at first sounds like a chest-thumping battle of techno-corporate pride, but after a bit of investigation might actually benefit people who are stuck with plain old 2D.
Like any city, El Paso, Texas, makes goofy, oversimplified tourist maps for visitors, but in 2010 it oversimplified the map so much that it deleted its violence-plagued neighbor to the south, Ciudad Juarez.
There are almost too many Occupy-related plans for May 1 in New York, which Occupy hopes will launch its spring resurgence. To keep it all in order, we've put together a map of the locations where you can expect protest actions on the Tuesday,
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
Small businesses are getting sick of Google charging big sums for access to its popular Maps product. Here are three ways to get around without Google Maps.
Plus: banks are now zombies, possibly squid zombies
A scary map to match the scary weather. Scheduled for this Sunday
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