Five Best International Startups in 2014

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No. 1: Waze

Waze

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s most recent impressive purchase was bound to make our countdown. Waze, arguably the biggest GPS-based navigation app and community for drivers, was developed by an Israeli startup called Waze Mobile, which was purchased by Google at the end of 2013, for no less than $1.1 billion. The neatest thing about Waze is that users don’t really have to do anything in order to contribute to the community. They simply have to drive around with the app open, and they’ll be passively uploading traffic and road data.

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