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Waze users are able to report a multitude of traffic-related incidents from accidents to police traps. Waze has the ability to direct users based on crowdsourced information. Waze encourages users to report traffic or road hazards through incentives such as acquiring points for your profile.

Waze offers turn-by-turn voice navigation, real-time traffic, and other location-specific alerts. Waze can also identify the cheapest fuel station near a user or along their route, provided Waze has enabled fuel prices for that country. Waze sends anonymous information, including users' speed and location, back to its database to improve the service as a whole.īased on the information collected, Waze is then in a position to provide routing and real-time traffic updates.

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Waze users ('Wazers') can report accidents, traffic jams, speed and police traps, and, from the online map editor, can update roads, landmarks, house numbers, etc. Waze collects map data, travel times, and traffic information from users and transmits it to the Waze server, at no cost to Waze. In 2020, the FTC announced that they will be re-examining the acquisition of Waze. The UK Office of Fair Trading and the Israel Antitrust Authority also investigated it and allowed the acquisition. The FTC decided that it would not challenge Google's acquisition of Waze. In June 2013, the United States Federal Trade Commission started considering whether Google's acquisition of Waze might violate competition law – Waze was one of very few competitors in the mobile mapping sector to Google's own Google Maps. Waze's 100 employees received about $1.2 million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech. In June 2013, Google bought Waze for $966 million. In 2013, the GSM Association, a trade association of mobile network operators, gave Waze the Best Overall Mobile App award at the association's Mobile World Congress exhibition. It has also been used in Rio de Janeiro inside Centro de Operações Rio (Rio's Operations Center) since July 24, 2013, as well as in New York and New Jersey since 2012.

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It also offers TV news stations a web interface to broadcast current traffic reports and alerts directly from the Waze app the service had been used by 25 U.S. In November 2012, the company also began to monetize its app in November 2012, offering resellers and advertisers a web interface to advertise based on location, where a small icon appears when a phone is at a particular location, prompting the user to engage. In December 2011, Waze employed 80 people, including 70 at Ra'anana, Israel and 10 in Palo Alto, California. The app was updated in 2011 to display real-time, community-curated points of interest, including local events such as street fairs and protests. The company raised an additional $30 million in financing the following year.

In 2010, the company raised $25 million in the second round of funding. In 2009, the company name was changed to Waze Mobile Ltd. In 2008, Shabtai formed a company called Waze to commercialize the project.

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In 2006, Israeli programmer Ehud Shabtai founded a community project FreeMap Israel, which aimed to create, with the crowd sourcing assistance of community users, a free digital database of the map of Israel in Hebrew, and to ensure its free content, update and distribution. The app generates revenue from hyperlocal advertising to an estimated 130 million monthly users. Waze Mobile was acquired by Google in June 2013. Two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex Ventures Israel, and an early-stage American venture capital firm, Bluerun Ventures, provided funding. Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine founded the company. The Israeli company Waze Mobile developed the Waze software.

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Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network. It works on smartphones and other computers that have GPS support. Waze ( Hebrew: ווייז, / w eɪ z/ formerly FreeMap Israel) is a subsidiary of Google that provides satellite navigation software.

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