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Jack for Sanders's JournalGoogle Buys Drone Maker Courted by Facebook. Internet Giant to Acquire Titan Aerospace
Source: WSJ
Google Inc. GOOGL +1.53% said Monday it agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a startup maker of high-altitude drones, as the Internet search giant adds more aerial technology to collect images and get more of the world's population online.
Google didn't disclose a purchase price for Titan, of Moriarty, N.M., whose solar-powered drones are intended to fly for years.
Earlier this year, Facebook FB +0.22% had been in talks to buy Titan. But Facebook later said it was buying Ascenta, a U.K.-based aerospace company that has also been working on solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles, for $20 million.
Titan and its roughly 20 employees will stay in New Mexico and the company will continue to be run by Chief Executive Vern Raburn, a technology-industry veteran who previously headed Symantec Corp. SYMC +2.40% and Microsoft Corp.'s consumer-products division.
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Do no evil
Something was nagging at me all day. Couldn't put a finger on it.
Oh, I know I'm new here. Still trying to figure out the players and the cliques and rules of engagement.
But reading the posts the last few days, and especially today I just had that nagging feeling. It has been reminding me that I was forgetting something.
Then it hit me.
11 years ago today, March 26th 1997.
39 members of Marshall Applewhite's little cult were found dead in a mansion San Diego.
Draped in black shrouds, wearing Nike shoes, each with $5.75 in their pocket for fares, plastic bags over their heads and full of phenobarbital and vodka.
It was known as Heaven's Gate.
http://www.heavensgate.com/
Not even sure what brought it to mind.
Just a funny feeling.
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