Google beats Facebook to acquisition of drone maker
Google has just agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of high-altitude solar-powered drones that was in acquisition talks with Facebook just a few months ago. The Mountain View company hopes to use these long-lasting autonomous vehicles to assist its Project Loon project, which aims to broadcast internet signals to parts of the world that can’t get online. Facebook, on the other hand, went ahead with another drone company called Ascenta for Internet.org, its own worldwide internet project. Titan drones could also work with Makani, a Google airborne wind turbine project. As the unmanned planes are also able to collect high-res images of earth and support voice and data services, they could also be of use in other Google divisions, such as Maps.
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Source: WSJ
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