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Although unsettling to some, the more places that Google can be at once, the better the data and services it can provide its users.
Skift | 11 years ago
Google Street View gives destinations the opportunity to draw more visitors by providing detailed images of natural attractions that were previously difficult to capture online.
Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press | 11 years ago
Tourism
Google’s vertical ascent was the next stop in its mapping conquest that started with roads and progressed to include natural wonders and indoors. Destinations can hope for an increase in interest in monuments that can be hyped with the online views.
Unlikely the deal will get tripped up in anti-trust, Waze is too small to have ever become a material competitor, and its elimination from the market doesn't change much from competitive scenario.
Brian Womack, Bloomberg | 11 years ago
Google's Waze purchase will be scrutinized closely from a number of angles, but the most important one in the long run may likely be sceptical users wondering just what they're doing with all that data about their movements.
In this new world, multi-brand strategy is clearly how big Internet companies want to operate, partly to not mess with the DNA of the startups they're buying.
Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago
If accurate, it's good news for Waze. Especially since the app's appetite for data and battery power has become a turn off for many of the early adopters.
Hagai Golan and Tzahi Hoffman, The Globes | 11 years ago
Digital and especially mobile maps have made us heavily dependent on them, but it doesn't have to be all negative: besides navigation, maps give us a sense of place, and then it is up to us where we go from there.
Tom Chivers, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago
Ground Transport
Many of the components of self-driving cars, such as detection features when a pedestrian gets in the way, are already present in today's vehicles. Yes, there's a lot more testing that's needed before we wave the checkered flag to welcome self-driving cars. Are they going to be hacker-proof? Then again, not much is.
Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press | 11 years ago
Google Maps already holds such a dominant position that it would be such a shame if it is able to buy Waze. Could you imagine the Justice Department weighing the antitrust implications of a maps/navigation acquisition? That would be another sign -- as if we needed it -- that mobile is playing such an important role in our lives.
Reuters | 11 years ago
