Waze
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| Original author(s) | Waze Mobile |
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| Developer(s) | Waze Mobile |
| Stable release |
4.15.0 (IOS);
4.16.0.1 (Android); 3.7.4.5 (Windows Phone 8–8.1, Windows 10 Mobile); 2.1.99 (Symbian); 2.0.2.304 (BlackBerry); 2.1.99.114 (Windows Mobile 6.x); / 7 December 2016 |
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| Operating system | Android, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry OS (beta), iOS, Windows Mobile 5–6, Windows Phone 8-8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Symbian, Maemo |
| Type | GPS navigation software |
| License | Software and Maps: Proprietary |
| Website | waze |
Waze (/weɪz/), (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS-based geographical navigation application program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Waze Mobile. It works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support and provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over mobile networks. Waze Mobile was founded in Israel by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine, funded by 2 Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex and an early-stage American venture capital firm Bluerun Ventures, and eventually acquired by Google in 2013.
Waze won the Best Overall Mobile App award at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, beating Dropbox, Flipboard and others. On June 11, 2013, Google completed the acquisition of Waze for a reported US$1.3 billion. As part of the deal signed, each of Waze's 100 employees was to receive an average of about $1.2 million, which represents the largest payout to employees in the history of Israeli high tech.
Waze supports Android and iPhone, whereas Symbian, BlackBerry 10 (except BlackBerry Q10),Windows Phone 8 and Windows Mobile from version 5. were deprecated. In July 2013 Waze said they planned to support both iPhone and Android, and would consider supporting new platforms. As older platforms (Symbian, WM, BlackBerry) do not support either a full native UI or other application programming interfaces they rely on, they could not support them, although existing versions would continue to work.
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