A Google division called Waze, originally known as FreeMap Israel provides GPS-enabled satellite apps for navigation for mobile devices and other computing platforms.
It integrates user-submitted journey times along with route details as well as turn-by-turn guidance while collecting location-dependent data via a cell phone network.
Waze advertises the application as an entirely free download and usage driven by communities project.
Waze would become an entity of the Google Geographic section, which manages Google Maps as well as Google Earth, including Street View among other real-world mapping tools.
Waze had been purchased by Google for the sum of 1.3 billion USD in 2013 along with the fact it had stayed separate from Google Maps until 2021.
Google’s owner firm Alphabet stated at the beginning of this year that it will be cutting off approximately 12,000 workers, or about 6 percent of its staff.
Many tech Giants such as Twitter, Amazon, etc are also laying off employees in the economic downturn caused by post covid situations.