{"id":660797,"date":"2013-05-29T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=232862"},"modified":"2013-05-29T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:33:32","slug":"facebook-not-acquiring-waze-will-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660797","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Not Acquiring Waze, Will Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors about Facebook trying to acquire Waze have been circulating for close to a year at this point. The rumors picked up steam earlier this month, followed by talks of a bidding war among Facebook, Google and other unspecified companies. Some have mentioned Apple as a suitor, as it has struggled with its own Maps offering. <\/p>\n

According to reports, it looks like Google’s competition has been reduced. AllThingsD’s Mike Isaac reports<\/a> that Facebook is no longer in talks to acquire the company, indicating that talks fell apart in part due to “conflicts over whether or not the Waze team – which is predominantly based in Israel – would move over to the United States and fold itself into Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, among other reasons.” <\/p>\n

Neither company has commented on the situation. <\/p>\n

Additionally, Apple CEO Tim Cook said<\/a> at the D11 conference that the company did not make a bid for Waze. Technically, that doesn’t exactly mean Apple is out of the discussion, but it does clear some up some notions. <\/p>\n

Reports of Google’s interest in Waze haven’t exactly been confirmed, but Bloomberg reported last week that Google was in the mix. As previously mentioned<\/a>, Google could be an attractive destination for a company in the mapping area, given the success of Google Maps, and the continued expansion of imagery and features. It could also prove to be a defensive move on Google’s part, keeping competitors from gaining ground against its popular Maps service. <\/p>\n

Google recently unveiled new Maps experiences for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. <\/p>\n

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Rumors about Facebook trying to acquire Waze have been circulating for close to a year at this point. The rumors picked up steam earlier this month, followed by talks of a bidding war among Facebook, Google and other unspecified companies. Some have mentioned Apple as a suitor, as it has struggled with its own Maps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}