In March 2017, Spotify announced its partnership with Waze to give an integrated experience where Wazers could play music on Spotify directly from Waze app and get Waze directions on Spotify app on the Android platform. Google filed a "10-Q" form with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) stating that the Waze acquisition cost $966 million. The UK Office of Fair Trading and the Israel Antitrust Authority also investigated it and allowed the acquisition. The FTC decided that it would not challenge Google's acquisition of Waze. In June 2013, the United States Federal Trade Commission started considering whether Google's purchase of Waze might violate competition law – Waze was one of very few competitors in the mobile mapping sector to Google's own Google Maps. Waze's 100 employees received about $1.2 million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech. Google bought Waze for $966 million in 2013 to add social data to its mapping business. Waze won the Best Overall App award at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, beating Dropbox, Flipboard and others. Waze Mobile was acquired in 2013 by Google. The app was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Waze Mobile that was founded by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine, funded by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex, and an early-stage American venture capital firm, Bluerun Ventures. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network.
Waze is a GPS navigation software that works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support.
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