Today’s featured stories Want to live ‘in real life’ and block out screens? These glasses on Kickstarter may do the trick Washington Gov. Inslee says state is ready for Trump… Read More
Waze is expanding its carpooling service nationwide, and as part of the plan the Google-owned traffic and navigation app will offer rides to and from 50 Amazon distribution centers. Waze… Read More
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Seattle’s economic growth, largely driven by the tech boom, is creating serious traffic problems, as the region’s population continues to increase. Can technology help? Waze thinks so. The Google-owned company —… Read More
Navigating the Los Angeles area and avoiding traffic is a difficult enough proposition, but it must be especially scary this week for people fleeing or trying to steer clear of… Read More
Google wants America to run on Dunkin’ and Waze. Dunkin’ Donuts announced the rollout of a mobile order-ahead service in Google’s popular Waze navigation app on Wednesday, hoping to take advantage of… Read More
INRIX, the Kirkland, Wash.-based traffic technology company, is supplying parking data for Waze, the popular navigation app powered by driver input. The partnership was announced this morning. INRIX’s data on nearby parking… Read More
Uber, Lyft, and now, Google? The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Alphabet-owned Google is set to “take on Uber” with its own ride-sharing service that would charge “far cheaper… Read More
The traffic up ahead and the time to your destination will hardly matter if once you get there you forget your kid is in the car. The traffic app Waze… Read More
Calculating when you need to leave for an appointment isn’t just a matter of looking at the distance between your current location and your destination; you have to consider the… Read More
Traffic, like root canals, mosquitos, and papercuts, is a universally hated phenomenon. So it stands to reason that an app for “outsmarting traffic together” would be adopted as a win… Read More
Preparing to hit the I-5 to Grandma’s house? You’ll want to look at this data released by Waze. The navigation app has released the best and worst travel times for the… Read More
Tap into the Force on your drive. Waze is celebrating Star Wars: The Force Awakens with C-3PO as your guide. Other additions to the navigation app include finding “road goodies” like… Read More
Late-night talk show host and all-around funnyman Stephen Colbert is the latest celebrity to lend his voice to Google’s navigation app Waze. As part of the kickoff for CBS’ The… Read More
What if your daily commute could turn into an adventure voiced by Arnold Schwarzenegger? It can, at least for a little while: Navigation app Waze commissioned the Terminator himself to… Read More
Google’s crowdsourced real-time traffic app Waze is adding another kind of alert: Amber alerts. Waze has announced it will integrate Amber alerts as they’re redistributed by the National Center for Missing and… Read More
The last time I wrote about the temptation to use my phone while I drive, one solution I considered was to banish my phone to the trunk. Today, that’s not… Read More
It was going to be a quick trip to the Eastside on a weekend. Then traffic stopped, my husband scowled, and I looked at my phone, sitting idle in the… Read More
Most traffic technology out there does a fairly decent job of calculating the quickest route to your destination. But now INRIX, the Kirkland-based traffic data and technology company, is taking it… Read More
Apparently unfazed by a reported FTC review of its $1.1 billion Waze acquisition, Google is starting to integrate features from the Waze mapping service into its own Google Maps applications.… Read More
Google’s acquisition of traffic technology company Waze, for a reported purchase price of more than $1 billion, is generating buzz across the industry, but Kirkland-based traffic tech company INRIX is… Read More
After months of speculation about a possible acquisition, traffic technology company Waze has found itself a buyer, and it’s Google. The search giant confirmed the news this morning in a blog… Read More
Bloomberg News says this morning that Google may try to acquire Waze, the traffic and mapping technology company that Facebook is reportedly also interested in buying, and plenty of M&A… Read More
One of the more interesting tech rumors of the new year involves Waze, the heavily-funded Silicon Valley startup that specializes in mobile traffic data and easy-to-use navigation apps. Citing unnamed… Read More
We’ve got a lot to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, starting with our thoughts on the trends at this week’s Casual Connect video game conference in… Read More
People must really hate getting stuck in traffic. Waze, a Silicon Valley startup, just landed a whopping $30 million in venture capital financing to help people better navigate through congested… Read More