You like to Moovit? Intel snaps up Israeli mobility startup for rumoured $1bn as part of expensive mobility push

Intel is being linked with the takeover of Israeli public transit startup Moovit for a cool $1bn, in order to beef up its portfolio in the mobility and transportation markets. Talk of the Chipzilla deal began circulating on Sunday - the start of the Israeli working week. According to local Hebrew-language business paper The …

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps

I would welcome MS to enter the war arena that looks so monopolistic.

[Alan Sharkey]

I used Moovit when we were in Australia - it worked very well. I hope Intel don't mess around with it.

Alan

[fung0]

This is the End

When you acquisition takes over from attention to your core business(es), it's a sure sign the company is moribund. We've seen it over and over again.

Intel will lumber on as a sort of corporate golem, but it will never do great work again.

[MrMerrymaker]

Moovit sketchy

Being in the middle of nowhere in the UK, I've found Moovit unreliable.

One of our bus lines was cancelled, and it was showing it as a valid route for six months. During which time I contacted them and showed them the route cancellation notice on my local (now useless) stop, and a link to Stagecoach's article on the route closing.

More recently, Moovit told me I could get off a bus on a stop that doesn't, physically, exist (the stop is on a main road surrounded by fields - there's no pavement, no room to stand, and no stopping!)

I hope this takeover improves their data integrity. Which, to be fair, is brilliant 95% of the time.

But obviously works off the same data as Google Maps et al, and needs to be more receptive to feedback.