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Waze is making it easier for EV owners to find compatible charging points
Google-owned mapping app Waze is adding a new feature that seeks to help EV owners find a compatible charger en route. Users, once they have entered their vehicle model and plug type into the app, wil
Google combines Maps and Waze teams as pressures mount to cut costs
Google plans to combine the teams working on its Maps product and on Waze, a mapping service that Google acquired in 2013. The merger comes as the search engine giant feels the pressure to cut costs a
Xeneta makes a splash with $80M on a $265M valuation to scale its crowdsourced sea and air freight analytics
The wheels of global commerce continue to turn, through wars, pandemics and economic downturns; and today a startup taking a new tech approach to improve the workings of one of the more antiquated asp
Google’s Waze is shutting down its carpool service starting next month
Google-owned Waze is shuttering Waze Carpool, its service designed to connect drivers and commuters, starting next month. The six-year-old service is shutting down due to shifting commuting patterns a
Waze users can now access Apple Music directly from the navigation app’s audio player
Waze announced today that users can access Apple Music content directly from the app’s built-in Audio Player via a new integration. The integration will make it easier for users to pause, play a
Waze is rolling out a new ‘Drive with Headspace’ experience to make commutes less stressful
Waze announced today it’s partnering with meditation app Headspace to roll out a new “Drive with Headspace” experience aimed at making commutes less stressful. The navigation app mak
Waze with ‘PAW Patrol’ voices sounds like a chill car ride
Waze might have a way to keep your kids entertained during a drive without handing them a tablet: distract them with your navigation app. The company has added a PAW Patrol experience.
Google Maps on iOS adds live location sharing in iMessage, home screen widget, dark mode
Google Maps announced today three feature updates to its iOS app. With live location sharing in the iMessage app, a traffic widget for the home screen and dark mode, Google Maps is positioning itself
Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change
But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google
Waze CEO Noam Bardin to leave company in early 2021
Waze CEO Noam Bardin, who joined the company nearly 12 years ago and led it through its acquisition by Google to become a crowdsourced navigation app with millions of active users, is stepping down ea
Waze gets smarter with trip suggestions, lane guidance, traffic notifications and more
Google-owned navigation app Waze is gaining a number of new product features as well as a partnership with Amazon Music, the company announced at its first major virtual event, Waze On. Among the chan
Peer Medical allows lung cancer patients to anonymously share treatments with each other
Peer Medical has a big mission. After his father died of lung cancer, serial entrepreneur Ed Spiegel vowed to create a better way for lung cancer patients to deal with their disease. The startup has s
How Moovit went from opportunity to a $900M exit in 8 years
Now a private investor, former Moovit president Omar Téllez offers a look inside the company's early growth strategy, its efforts to achieve product-market fit and how rapid growth in Latin America s
StuffThatWorks nabs $9M for crowdsourced insights on health conditions
Waze upended the world of navigation when it took the approach of blending basic mapping data with crowdsourced feedback on the best routes, annoying traffic and other road conditions. Now, one of the
Facebook code change caused outage for Spotify, Pinterest and Waze apps
If you’re an iPhone user, odds are fairly good you spent a frustrating portion of the morning attempting to reopen apps. I know my morning walk was dampened by the inability to fire up Spotify. Plen
Waze gets a big visual update with a focus on driver emotions
Crowdsourced navigation platform Waze, which is owned by Google and yet remains a separate, but intertwined product relative to Google Maps, just got one of its biggest UI and design overhauls ever. T
Waze adds unplowed road reporting feature for better awareness of winter driving hazards
Crowdsourced navigation app and Google subsidiary Waze is adding new features that allow you to report within the app unplowed roads made more dangerous or inaccessible during snowstorms, and also to
Top mobility VCs discuss their current investment strategies
The mobility industry is rapidly shifting to readjust for an electric and autonomous future. Automotive companies are increasingly looking outside the manufacturing sector to fuel growth, and companie
Israeli seed fund Remagine is financing media’s AI revolution
While large entertainment companies scramble to catch up to streaming content platforms, more fundamental upheaval is headed their way as a result of technological advances in artificial intelligence
Google Maps adds more Waze-like features, including driving-incident reports
Google Maps is starting to look a lot more like Waze. Google today announced a series of new features that will allow drivers using the Maps app on iOS to report accidents, speed traps and traffic jam