Finally confirmed the rumors, Google has finally acquired the driving application Waze A fact that he confirms through his official blog, where he gives several keys to the agreement, although not the final price thereof With this ends a season of rumors about the purchase of this application that, supposedly, has been raffled off among several large companies such as Apple and the social network FacebookFinally, those of Mountain View have been the ones who have taken the cat into the water.
In the publication of Google they affirm that this acquisition will be extremely useful to improve their well-known Google Maps , thus introducing the GPS technology of the application to take advantage of the information in real time from the traffic Something that, without a doubt, will further complete the Google maps In addition, they comment that Waze will also be reinforced by the contents of Google, without specifically specifying what it is. This could be your maps, although the ones used by Waze are created by a volunteer community lovers of digital cartography,so we will have to wait and see what it translates into this reinforcement.
The final amount disbursed by Google is not specified, although the Israeli digital newspaper The Globes stated, just a couple of days ago, that the amount amounted to 1.300 million dollars What is said is that, at least for now, the application Waze will remain independent of Google Maps, acting on its own and maintaining its offices in Israel, where it was created. Finally, they have a few words for the Waze Mapping Community, with whom they want to work together to continue improving and growingas usual.
Therefore, it is confirmed that Waze is already owned by Google , waiting to know the final amount of the deal And, the possibility of continuing with his own team and maintaining offices in Israel, appear to have been the most tempting deal for the application, as long as Let's listen to the rumorsGossip that Waze would have rejected the offer of 500 million dollars from the CalifornianApple, or the 1,000 that, always supposedly, would have putFacebook on the table.
And it is that these last two companies seemed to have real interests in the application of community maps since, as soon as Apple, could supply the needs and deficiencies that its own map application had. For its part, Facebook could have used the alliance with Waze to increase its position in the mobile market, one of its most pursued objectives and for which the number of applications has increasedto his credit, being Instagram the best-known case after his acquisition for 1,000 million dollars
With this Waze continues as it worked so far, with a user base that has already reached 50 million throughout the world. It is expected that, from this moment, there will be new updates both in the application Google Mapsas in Waze with important improvements and new features
