{"id":753060,"date":"2013-05-24T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=591389"},"modified":"2013-05-24T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:00:35","slug":"google-reportedly-eyes-1-billion-plus-waze-buy-but-facebook-may-be-blocking-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753060","title":{"rendered":"Google reportedly eyes $1 billion-plus Waze buy, but Facebook may be blocking bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/24\/google-waze-acquisition-facebook\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/google-sign-9.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Waze Acquisition\" title=\"Google Waze Acquisition\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Interest in social mapping and navigation provider <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/waze\">Waze<\/a> is reportedly heating up, with <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> and several other \"large tech companies\" currently holding talks with the Israel-based company. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-05-24\/google-said-to-consider-buying-waze-presaging-bidding-war.html\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> on<\/a> Friday reported that Google is considering a bid that exceeds <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook's<\/a> earlier offer, which reportedly fell between $800 million and $1 billion. Earlier rumors suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/facebook-waze-acquisition-problems\/\">Facebook and Waze's negotiations had stalled due to a disagreement<\/a> over whether or not Waze's Israeli research and development center would remain open. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calcalist.co.il\/internet\/articles\/0,7340,L-3603261,00.html\">a follow-up<\/a> from Israel-based newspaper <em>Calcalist<\/em>, which first broke the story that Facebook was in talks to acquire Waze, Google may face some trouble if it's serious about a possible deal \u2014 Facebook and Waze have reportedly just signed an agreement that prevents Waze from negotiating with other companies for the time being.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yEOJvONNARE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in social mapping and navigation provider Waze is reportedly heating up, with Google and several other &#8220;large tech companies&#8221; currently holding talks with the Israel-based company. Bloomberg on Friday reported that Google is considering a bid that exceeds Facebook&#8217;s earlier offer, which reportedly fell between $800 million and $1 billion. Earlier rumors suggested Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39U8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}