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Google Buying Waze in Bid to Catch Up With Facebook
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Google Inc. is spending more than $1 billion to help it recover ground lost after its mapping tool was surpassed by Facebook Inc. as the most popular U.S. smartphone application.
Google said yesterday that it’s buying Waze Inc., maker of software that relies on user input to make digital maps more accurate and up to date.