Navigation app Waze_hit the headlines over the past week for the $1.15 billion that Google paid to acquire it last year – not to mention hints that the company might not have quite_been ready to become a small cog in a big machine. Now several months down the line from the closure of that deal, TNW sat down for a chat with Julie Mossler, senior director of communications at Waze, to catch up with the social navigation company’s progress and talk about the potential future growth – and independence – of the service. Hands-off Billion-dollar deals and the backing of...

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