Google acquires ImageAmerica to boost mapping
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Blog: Google has acquired a company that specializes in aerial photography, including its own digital camera system and aircraft to house it.
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Neven Vision acquisition expected to bolster portal's Picasa photo management software and service.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as &quot;Street View,&quot; but it looks a bit like &quot;Candid Camera&quot; as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google turned its eyes to the stars on Wednesday, introducing Sky, its complement to the Google Earth ground mapping product.
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Google is forming partnerships with hundreds of smaller media companies that see value in contributing to the site.
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US Internet security start-up firm GreenBorder, which specializes in using &quot;virtualization&quot; to create safe zones for online activities, revealed on Tuesday it has been bought by Google.
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Redmond fights Google, one grid at a time Global OS leviathan Microsoft has continued buying trendy stuff, announcing that it had bought UK ad-driven mapping service Multimap today.â¦
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Internet search company Google Inc.  has acquired Keyhole Corp., a supplier of online satellite maps that allow users to zoom down to street level to specific locations, Google said on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has created a searchable index of Google Earth data files, a feature that should make it easier for users to find and adopt third-party overlays for this popular mapping application. Google Earth's search engine now returns KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files which developers have created to add data to the application's maps, the Mountain View, California, company said Wednesday. "Users can now search through all of the world's KML files, making the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web instantly accessible for geobrowsing and exploration," wrote Chikai Ohazama, a Google Earth product manager in an official company blog. Google expects to later extend this capability to its mapping Web site Google Maps, Ohazama wrote. Google Earth is a free, downloadable PC application that taps a multiterabyte database of aerial and satellite images to let users "fly" around the globe using a video-game type user interface. By creating overlays in the KML file format, users can create markers to pinpoint places and provide all sorts of information about an area, making Google Earth a repository of local business listings, homes for sale, photos, architectural drawings, videos, historical facts and geographical data. KML users range from casual, individual users to large organizations like Discovery Networks, the U.S. National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic. KML can also be used to add data files to Google Maps, a mapping Web site that is one of the most popular among developers for creating mashups, which are Web applications that use data and features from an existing site or online service via application programming interfaces (APIs). Online maps, in combination with local search engines, have become very popular in recent years, giving people a way to discover local businesses and attractions, obtain driving directions and view satellite images of an area, among other things. Google competitors like Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., AOL LLC and Ask.com have made their mapping sites a high priority for development. Advertising revenue in local search engines is expected to grow from US$3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010, according to The Kelsey Group Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google Inc. on Wednesday branched out into 3-D digital mapping with the acquisition of Keyhole Corp. In its second acquisition this year, Google has bought a startup company that connects consumers, businesses
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Google is acquiring Panoramio, a photo sharing site that lets user upload photos and identify where they were taken.
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Google on Tuesday acquiredÂ Peakstream, a Redwood City, Calif., developer ofÂ software for multicore and parallel processors, the company said.
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GoogleÂ is acquiring Panoramio, a photo-sharing Web site based in Spain that lets people upload photos and identify where they were taken by placing them on Google Earth or Google Maps, where they can be viewed by the public.
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Preloaded with maps of North America and eastern and western Europe, the N&uuml;vifone will be Garmin's first device to include Google Local Search.
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Google has launched a program to help nonprofits use Google Earth to raise awareness of their missions and better demonstrate what they do
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Google Inc. has bought digital map maker Keyhole, extending the search engine with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world.