Google Acquires ImageAmerica
, a company, as they say, building “high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery.” Google hints that they expect this data to be rolled out in Google Earth/ Maps in the future. Already, ImageAmerica provided hi-res New Orleans imagery to Google following Hurricane Katrina. Image-America.com now shows the usual semi-blank “acquired” page, but Archive.org stored an older version I’ve mirrored here.
After Panoramio, PeakStream, Zenter, Feedburner, GrandCentral and Postini, this is the seventh Google acquisition just this and last month. I suppose by now, a typical Google lobby small talk starts with, “So, when were you acquired?”
Thanks Colin Colehour, Jason, and Frank Taylor of the
And there's more!Watch out Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Metro PCS - Here comes Google.
Google says it is prepared to bid billions of dollars in an auction of federal wireless frequencies to create a national broadband network that could compete directly with the wired networks of companies like AT&T and Comcast.
A victory would open the door for Google to operate the network itself, vastly increasing its business prospects by selling Internet, telephone and television services. Or it could have other companies do the job, a more likely scenario.
For more on Google's continuing string of acquisitions (and how to cash-in on some of the profits yourself), read Watching the Incubators
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