What else do Keyhole and SketchUp have in common?
Brian C. Norton notes in a comment at SlashGeo that not only both were acquired by Google, but also that they were funded by CIA via In-Q-Tel. He notes a few more Google might want: metacarta (natural language/document geocoding), spotfire (visual data mining), pixlogic (automated image exploitation, tagging, searching).
I’ll add a few more from the In-Q-Tel portfolio: IDELIX (in context zooming, I’m suprised they’ve not yet been acquired) and Rosum (location determination by TV signals).
It sure was nice for the CIA to fund these companies for Google to buy, isn’t it?
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/21 at 01:35 PM |
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