Expect the unexpected from giants' battle for air supremacy
19 April 2014 by Steve Blum
broadband, facebook, geek stuff, google, internet.org, planet earth, project loon, titan aerospace
broadband, facebook, geek stuff, google, internet.org, planet earth, project loon, titan aerospace
A year ago, if anyone had said that Google and Facebook would be fighting each other to acquire drone manufacturers and technology, you might have rightly called that person crazy. Loony, even. But that’s what’s going on now.
Google announced this week that it bought Titan Aerospace, a New Mexico-based maker of drones. That follows stories more than a month ago that Facebook was in the process of buying it.
Titan’s drone technology will be used by Google both for imaging purposes and to bolster Project Loon, which is aimed at bringing Internet connectivity to parts of the world that can’t be economically reached by conventional means.… More