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Waze
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Waze Mobile Ltd, (; ) doing business as Waze (), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS). In addition to turn-by-turn navigation, it incorporates user-submitted travel times and route details while downloading location-dependent information over a cellular network. Waze describes its application as a community-driven initiative that is free to download and use.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Waze Mobile Ltd
- Software.logo
- Logo for waze.svg
- Software.logo size
- 200px
- Software.developer
- Software.released
- (as FreeMap Israel)
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.genre
- Satellite navigation software
- Software.language count
- 50
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Driving directions, live traffic & road conditions updates - Waze
Realtime driving directions based on live traffic updates from Waze - Get the best route to your destination from fellow drivers
waze.com →Link to the official site · 3,083 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Development
- Google acquisition
- Overview
- Features
- Connected Citizens Program / Waze for Cities
- Criticisms
- Promoting cut-through driving
- Monitoring of police officers
- Distraction
- Vulnerabilities
- Licensing
- See also
- References
- External links
Waze Mobile Ltd, (; ) doing business as Waze (), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS). In addition to turn-by-turn navigation, it incorporates user-submitted travel times and route details while downloading location-dependent information over a cellular network. Waze describes its application as a community-driven initiative that is free to download and use.
The software was originally developed in Israel by Waze Mobile, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine, who are also veterans of Unit 8200. Funding for the initial project was provided by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex Ventures Israel, as well as by an early-stage American venture capital firm, Bluerun Ventures. In June 2013, Waze Mobile was acquired by Google for US$1.3 billion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waze” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.