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Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
March 20, 2025, 11:32 am
From Waze to Wiz: How Google learned to love Israeli tech
The biggest buyout in the country’s history will make the unpretentious Wiz founders multibillionaires, while an estimated $4 billion in taxes is set to flow into national coffers
By Sharon Wrobel
Waze co-founder Uri Levine presenting the the new edition of his book 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution - A Handbook for Entrepreneurs.' (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
March 16, 2025, 1:20 pm
Waze co-founder Uri Levine has written the book on startups navigating crises – literally
The tech guru talks about the new edition of his handbook for entrepreneurs, and backs it up with examples of how his own businesses survived, and thrived, during the war in Gaza
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Waze navigation app will map more than 1,200 Zikaron Basalon gatherings and events across Israel dedicated to Holocaust remembrance. (Courtesy)
May 2, 2024, 10:48 pm
Microsoft, Meta and Google’s Waze provide tech for Holocaust remembrance projects
Ahead of Yom Hashoah, Microsoft rolls out AI platform for Zikaron Basalon events with survivors; Google’s Waze navigation app will map 1,200 meeting locations across Israel
By Sharon Wrobel
Waze co-founder and former CEO Noam Bardin. (Screenshot via CBInsights on YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 30, 2022, 7:48 pm
A ‘vessel for content’: Former Waze CEO builds Twitter alternative with a16z funding
Noam Bardin’s Post News social media platform launches for select users, has over 350,000 people on its waitlist
By Sharon Wrobel
A woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, on Monday, November 5, 2018. (AP/Ng Han Guan, File)
January 4, 2022, 7:02 pm
Google acquires Israeli cybersecurity company Siemplify for $500m
Israeli firm will become part of Google Cloud’s security team, and ‘change the rules’ of threat detection and response
By Ricky Ben-David
A traffic jam on Highway 2 (the coastal road) near Netanya, northern Israel, October 22, 2019. (Flash90)
May 20, 2021, 5:46 pm
Smart mobility firms join forces to tackle accidents and traffic on the roads
A pilot project will see Moovit, Nexar and other companies sharing user data with road operator Netivei Israel to monitor a piece of coastal Route 2; new platform protects privacy
By Shoshanna Solomon
Noam Bardin discussing his new venture Paygo (YouTube screenshot)
March 25, 2021, 2:57 pm
Waze founder teams up with Dan Rather to make paywalled content more accessible
Through a system of micropayments, entrepreneurs hope to get media consumers to pay for content they want to read from a variety of outlets, not just those they subscribe to
By Shoshanna Solomon
Noam Bardin (Photo credit: Courtesy Waze)
February 18, 2021, 4:44 pm
Waze CEO Noam Bardin explains why he left Google 2 weeks ago
Bardin quit, he writes on paygo, not because of any ‘confrontational disagreement’ with the US tech giant, but because he was ‘worn down by the nature of the beast’
By Shoshanna Solomon
Screen capture from video of the Aluf Sade interchange, December 28, 2020. (Netivei Israel)
December 28, 2020, 5:59 pm
Lockdown lite: Closure sees patchy compliance, has little impact on traffic
Cellphone provider finds just 18% drop in use of navigation app, barely half the fall for previous closures; buses packed as service cut 50%; Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda partly open
By ToI Staff
A screen capture from a Waze tutorial video (photo credit: Waze/YouTube)
September 10, 2020, 3:51 pm
Google’s Waze reportedly to cut 5% of workers, close offices amid COVID woes
The Verge reports that some 30 people to lose jobs at Israeli-founded navigation app; offices in Asia Pacific and Latin America to shut down as work-from-home trend reduces use
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Beresheet selfie during landing, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
January 1, 2020, 11:34 am
Celebrating a decade of life-changing Israeli inventions
From Waze to cancer-busting nano-ghost cells and 3-D printed hearts, The Times of Israel takes a dive into tech that helps us get where we’re going and keeps us safe and healthy
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Moovit app in use in Washington (Courtesy)
December 10, 2019, 11:26 am
Hitting half a billion users, Moovit’s mobility empire wraps up record year
Once used only to find the best bus route to a destination, the Moovit app today offers options for getting around by bike, scooter, train, taxi and even foot
By Ricky Ben-David
Moovit screenshot (Courtesy)
October 31, 2019, 4:09 pm
Moovit-Waze collaboration to provide pilot car-pooling service
Waze’s carpool drivers will be offered to Moovie users as option alongside public transportation; pilot rolled out initially to Android users in US, Brazil, Mexico, Israel
By Shoshanna Solomon
The deck overlooking views of Tel Aviv at new headquarters of Start-Up Nation Central (Amir Geron for Start-Up Nation Central)
April 5, 2019, 6:35 pm
‘Start-up nation’ expects no change of course after elections
Whether Likud or Blue and White come out on top, businesses expect a continued focus on bolstering Israel’s high-tech sector
By Stephen WEIZMAN
The Waze application is displayed on a smartphone in San Francisco, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
October 11, 2018, 6:41 am
Israeli app Waze expands carpooling service throughout US
About 1.3 million drivers and passengers have signed up for scheme, where riders pay a small fee to chip in for gas and other expenses
By Michael Liedtke
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