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Facebook in “advanced talks” to acquire Waze – Reuters
Posted May 9 2013 by Scott Webster in News, Rumors with 4 Comments

Facebook is reportedly in advance stages of negotiations in an attempt to acquire social-based navigation service Waze. Details are light but it’s said that the deal could fall between $800M and $1B (with a ‘B’) dollars. The buyout talks are alleged to have started in …

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Nuance’s Text-to-Speech Now Provides Turn-by-Turn Directions in Waze
Posted Sep 22 2011 by Scott Webster in News with 0 Comments

Nuance Communications, Inc., the secret sauce behind T-Mobile’s myTouch Genius Button and Dragon Naturally Speaking, have announced their next mobile move. Starting a few weeks back, Nuance began powering the complete voice guidance in turn-by-turn directions for Waze, the social mapping and navigation app. Using …

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