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Re:How Google bought Waze on Friday August 14, 2015 @12:44AM (#10058658)
Can you start turn by turn navigation in those countries? In Vietnam, although the maps are more than good enough, you can only preview a route, you can't actually start the route tracking. This is very frustrating if you're on a motorbike where the voice instructions and vibrations would be very useful.
Re:Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:37PM (#7153835)
Their middleware is very valuable. They have probably the best behavioral procedural animation system that is most notably used by Rockstar Games in GTAIV&V, Max Payne 3 and Red Dead Redemption.