Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/technology/article/Google-buys-drone-maker-Titan-Aerospace-5401516.php

Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer : April 14, 2014 : Updated: April 15, 2014 6:57am

NEW YORK (AP) — Google has bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, saying it could help bring Internet access to remote parts of the world as well as solve other problems.

Financial terms were not disclosed. Google Inc. said Monday that atmospheric satellites could also be used in disaster relief and assessing environmental damage.

Titan's atmospheric satellites, which are still in development and not yet commercially available, can stay in the air for as long as five years, according to reports. Before it was updated Monday to reflect the acquisition, Titan's website cited a wide range of uses for the drones, including atmospheric and weather monitoring, disaster response and voice and data communications.

Facebook Inc. was also in talks to buy New Mexico-based Titan earlier this year, but it acquired U.K.-based solar drone company Ascenta instead, hiring "key members of the team," as CEO Mark Zuckerberg put it, to work at Facebook.

[BlueStreak]

1. Everything Google does is about invading our lives with advertising

So think about all the ways they could use drones to increase the daily bombardment.

[Shivering Jemmy]

2. God I wish I worked for Google

[KoKo]

3. I posted it in "GD" yesterday...sunk like a stone. No one seemed to find it unusual that

Google and Facebook owner Zuckerberg would want to buy drone companies. I guess they could claim that both companies make solar powered drones--Good for enviornment. but I wondered how this would fit into their "business model" for Google and Facebook to be owners of two companies making drones.

Doesn't seem like a logical fit...unless they are up to something. What that would be is anyone's guess. Thanks for reposting.