Crowd-sourced traffic app Waze to come pre-installed on some Android models

Crowd-sourced traffic app Waze, owned by Google, is now officially one of the Google Mobile Services apps. That means it is on the list of Google apps that can be pre-installed on an Android phone by a handset manufacturer. In June 2013, Google purchased Israeli born Waze for $1.15 billion, beating out Facebook for the prize. The latter wanted the entire Waze team to move to Facebook HQ in the U.S. which was not acceptable to Waze. Despite the acquisition by Google, Waze is run separately from Google Maps.



Monday's announcement was made at MWC and Waze boiled down the announcement into two ...