{"id":660967,"date":"2013-05-29T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=622197"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:00:16","slug":"facebook-reportedly-no-longer-in-talks-to-acquire-waze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660967","title":{"rendered":"Facebook reportedly no longer in talks to acquire Waze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/29\/facebook-waze-acquisition-negotiations-fail\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/facebook-sign-89.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Facebook Waze Acquisition Negotiations\" title=\"Facebook Waze Acquisition Negotiations\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>It had been reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/facebook-waze-acquisition-1-billion\/\">looking to acquire social navigation company Waze<\/a> for between $800 million and $1 billion. The talks were <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/facebook-waze-acquisition-problems\/\">said to have hit a major roadblock in recent weeks<\/a>, however, as Facebook was reportedly interested in shutting down\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/waze\">Waze&#8217;s<\/a> research and development center in Israel and transferring employees to the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130529\/facebook-acquisition-talks-with-waze-fall-apart\/\">According to <em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a>, the talks have dissolved in recent days and the billion-dollar deal may no longer be on the table. The latest report reiterates earlier claims that Waze was uncomfortable having its employees transferred to work at Facebook&#8217;s headquarters in the United States. A deal with Waze would help Facebook continue its push into mobile, while complementing its already popular photo and messaging applications.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/KY-5zLvWDuc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been reported that Facebook was looking to acquire social navigation company Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The talks were said to have hit a major roadblock in recent weeks, however, as Facebook was reportedly interested in shutting down\u00a0Waze&#8217;s research and development center in Israel and transferring employees to the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660967","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}