Great article on Google's purchase of the start-up satellite company Skybox Imaging

06/11/2014 - 00:00


BY MARCUS WOHLSEN -

The reach of Google’s online empire is hard to overstate. In a sense, the Google search engine is the loom through which the entirety of the public internet is woven. With tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs, the company also handles many of our private online tasks. Using the data generated by these services to target online ads, Google has built a business that generates tens of billions of dollars a year.

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