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Google Is Combining Its Maps and Waze Teams Amid Cost-Cutting Pressure
Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., announced it’s doing some restructuring to merge Google Maps and Waze employees amid pressures to streamline the business and cut costs. The company has said both mapping apps will continue to operate independently.
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Google Brings Historical Photos to Street View Apps, Apple Music to Waze
After 15 years, Google Street View has become the defacto destination for people trying to get a feel for where they’re going. If not for Street View, I would have spent countless days and nights wandering around foreign locales, wondering where my hotel was or which side to cross the street to enter the train…
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Google Maps Directed Drivers Down Dangerous Roads During Record Lake Tahoe Snowfall
This December is already one of the snowiest ever in the Lake Tahoe region, with 202 inches having fallen in the month so far as of Tuesday. Naturally, bad weather results in road closures. But modern navigation software simply doesn’t take no for an answer, and so Google Maps — among other navigation companies —…
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Mercedes-Benz Cars Will Warn Each Other About Potholes, Shun Lesser Vehicles
Cars of the future are going to be chatty as hell. And it’s not like they don’t already communicate in little ways, sending data to Google Maps, Waze and the like to inform each other (and us dumb meat sacks) of traffic patterns, obstructions and other annoyances. Things are only going to continue in that…