After its successful showing during LA’s Carmageddon, Waze, a crowdsourced traffic data app, is now launching a broadcast partner program to allow local TV stations to tap into its data and leverage the app to engage consumers. It is a validation of crowdsourced data and reporting.… Read More »
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Waze, the smart crowd-source traffic information application, has picked up $30 million in a Series C round of funding as it looks to capitalize on a burgeoning international opportunity, particularly in China. The company has also hit 7 million users around the world. Read More »
Waze today launches version 2.0 of its social-based navigation and mapping application, adding a number of small changes and one big feature. The new Waze Groups allows users to create small groups that can easily share traffic information and track the location of group members. Read More »
Mobile apps are hot. Apple users have downloaded 2 billion of them, Microsoft just launched its Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Verizon, which is trying to lure developers to its own app store due to open later this year, in the meantime… Read More »
We all dread the stop-and-go traffic, road rage and speed traps that mark driving these days. But by using one of a host of location-based mobile applications that have recently hit the market, we have the means to avoid such driving hazards. Below is a list… Read More »
