Google Buys Digital Mapping Company
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Search enabler Google says it has acquired digital mapping company Keyhole for an undisclosed sum. Keyhole maintains a multiterabyte database of digital images of geographic locations, culled from satellite and aerial snapshots.
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Search giant Google said Wednesday that it has acquired Keyhole, a company specializing in Web-based software that allows people to view satellite images from around the globe.
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Another day... another Google acquisition: this one giving yet more confirmation that Google has its eye on the enterprise. The search giant announced yesterday that it has acquired Postini, a security and compliance services provider, for a cool $625 million in cash.
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Google Inc.  said on Monday it has agreed to buy Web-based security provider Postini for $625 million, expanding its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft Corp.'s  Office.
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Google Inc. now provides a searchable index to the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web.
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Google Inc. is looking to buy a U.S. company whose technology inserts advertisements into videogames, a published report says.  The Internet-search and online-advertising company is in talks to buy Adscape Media Inc. of San Francisco, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Microsoft continues to make acquisitions to boost its online services and advertising strategy. Early Wednesday, the company said it snapped up Multimap, a U.K. company that provides online mapping for Europe, North America, and Australia.
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Google Inc. has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp., extending the search engine leader's bid to fend off rivals with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia   NOK1V.HE said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mapping   software firm gate5 AG for an undisclosed sum to tap into the   fast-growing mobile navigation market.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--"Google wants you" to help it win the mapping war, John Hanke, the director of Google Earth and Google Maps, told a crowd of location-obsessed technologists Tuesday at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose.
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LONDON - Google has acquired US-based digital mapping firm Keyhole Corporation , which allows users to see images of locations from space as well as close up, for an undisclosed sum.
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Google Inc. said Wednesday that it acquired Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that combines a database of mapping information and images collected from satellites and airplanes with software.
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Oracle is adding a visual component to one of its E-Business Suite applications to help service providers locate customers more quickly using Google Maps.
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IHS Energy, which provides maps and technical databases to oil and natural-gas producers, acquired Cambridge Energy Research Associates, the consulting company
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ADDISON, Texas, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- FireScope, a leading developer of IT operations software, today announced it has added a mapping capability for its namesake IT operations management portal solution from Google(TM) Maps, one of the world's best known and most complete mapping systems.
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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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Google will introduce a new feature that lets users create personalized maps which plot the locations of everything from cheap gas locally to the latest earthquakes worldwide.