Posted on 06/10/2014 12:48:15 PM PDT by PoloSec
Google will buy the micro-satellite startup Skybox Imaging for $500 million, the company announced today.
While the deal isn’t yet closed, it’s a big moment. I mean, Google owns satellites now! And the deal falls into a pattern we’ve seen so far in 2014, of big companies chasing the next wave of revenue, by entering new markets through acquisitions.
Skybox, after all, is only one of many similar small-satellite startups. Google seems to have long been hankering for a small satellite manufacturer. The two are even both located in Mountain View, California.
But I think there’s something more here, something that makes Google’s purchase of Skybox different than any old Silicon Valley acquisition. Skybox isn’t just a plain-old satellite company, or even a plain-old satellite startup. Google’s purchase might signal a new product—a new area of sincere competition—for the web’s primo ad monger.
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And then Skynet became self aware...
Only just now?
satellite internet. tiny dish on the side of your house and voila ! NO GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
You’re joking, right?
Eric Schmidt the Google Chairman is a devout Baraqqi.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/04/Google-Hires-Obama-s-Campaign-E-Team
Then that would be his CHOICE now wouldn`t it?
No govt. could force him to share info now could it?
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