{"id":39821,"date":"2013-06-11T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=39821"},"modified":"2013-06-11T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:20:24","slug":"google-grabs-up-waze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39821\/google-grabs-up-waze\/","title":{"rendered":"Google grabs up Waze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc bought Israeli mapping startup Waze on Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, acquiring an online real-time mapping service to safeguard its own lead in one of the most crucial aspects of smartphone usage.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday that the Internet search leader was putting the finishing touches on a deal to take over the company for $1.3 billion. Google said in a Tuesday blog post that it had closed the deal and now planned on using Waze&#8217;s service to enhance its own Maps product, but did not say how much it paid.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Waze<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook, Google may go head to head for Waze\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38571\/facebook-google-may-go-head-to-head-for-waze\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook, Google may go head to head for Waze<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook looks to acquire navigation start-up\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/37461\/facebook-looks-to-acquire-navigation-start-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook looks to acquire navigation start-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc bought Israeli mapping startup Waze on Tuesday for an undisclosed sum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,53,3149,5800],"class_list":["post-39821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-google","tag-navigation","tag-waze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39823,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39821\/revisions\/39823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}