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Link Two weeks ago we reported that Facebook was interested in purchasing Israeli mapping startup Waze for up to $1 billion. Today, it appears that Google is also now in the bidding, and that could up the buying price. Waze specializes in satellite navigation for mobile devices, and uses members' smartphones to generate maps and traffic data. More importantly, Waze collects user's traveling speed and direction, which is extremely valuable data if monetized correctly. Google Maps and other popular mapping apps do not include such data. It had been reported that due diligence between Waze and Facebook had been going on for six months and a term sheet had already been signed. The talks seems to have stalled due to Facebook's demand that the whole team relocate to Palo Alto from Israel. The company currently has 47 million users, with 12 percent coming from the U.S. It also has particularly strong penetration in Brazil and its home country.

Installed the chip locally by a 'famous' local tuner who claimed to 'Maximise' your ride performance. Subsequently went back to him to re-tuned for various time and still not satisfied. Piss...so took a day off and went to viswork to do re-mapping and dyno. Here's the result: Power (BHP) ===== RPM Run 1 Run 2 3000 46.0 50.6 4000 66.5 71.8 5000 79.2 84.2 5500 85.0 89.3 6000 85.6 91.6 6500 87.1 93.1 Torque (NM) ===== RPM Run 1 Run 2 3000 109.2 120.1 4000 118.4 127.9 5000 112.8 120.0 5500 110.1 115.7 6000 101.6 108.7 6500 95.4 102.0 N.B. - Run 1 (tuned in Spore), Run 2 (tuned by Viswork) The result speak for itself. Over the whole range, Viswork still managed to squeeze out add 4-6 horses from the initial tuning by the local man. I am not doing advertising for Viswork, but just to remind all out there that Viswork charge a premium price for a reason. So dun end up like me paying more $$ to set things right. Now the drive feel is so much better and smoother.