Google (GOOG) Acquires Skybox for a Cool Half-billion Dollars

Google (GOOG) Tuesday agreed to purchase Skybox Imaging Inc, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in collecting high-resolution images from space, for $500 million in cash. Google plans to use Skybox’s small and its relatively cheap satellites to make better maps with “with up-to-date imagery,” the company said in a statement. “Over time, we also hope […] View the full post at: Google (GOOG) Acquires Skybox for a Cool Half-billion Dollars Related posts: Carl Icahn: I’m Up Half a Billion Dollars On My Herbalife (HLF) Position Adobe Acquires Omniture for $1.8B Chrome: Google’s New Open Source Browser to Launch Tomorrow