| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.08.2021 | Maxar Technologies Receives $26 Million Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGAs Open Mapping Platform | Maxar Technologies announced it has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to sustain and enhance the National System for Geospatial Intelligence Open Mapping En... |
| 23.06.2019 | DoD’s Joint AI Center to open-source natural disaster satellite imagery data set | As climate change escalates, the impact of natural disasters is likely to become less predictable. To encourage the use of machine learning for building damage assessment this week, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institut... |
| 23.06.2019 | DoD’s Joint AI Center to open-source natural disaster satellite imagery data set | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As climate change escalates, the impact of natura... |
| 03.06.2019 | Maxar announces defense, intelligence contracts worth $95 million for imagery and analytics | Maxar is transitioning from being a supplier of satellite imagery to a broader intelligence services provider of data and predictive analytics.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Maxar Technologies announced it has received multiple contracts in the firs... |
| 27.11.2018 | Amazon launches AWS Ground Station to help companies transmit satellite data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amazon announced the launch of AWS Ground Station... |
| 27.11.2018 | Amazon launches AWS Ground Station to help companies transmit satellite data | Amazon announced the launch of AWS Ground Station in preview today to help businesses, researchers, governments, and space agencies upload and download data from satellites orbiting Earth.
To power the service, ground stations and antennas ... |
| 22.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 22 | “ONCE IN A GENERATION”
Whippersnapper: Snap pitched NYC investors yesterday on its road show, touting 26-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel as a “once in a generation” founder. Reuters quotes an investor saying, “They could have been in their underw... |
| 11.02.2017 | Google’s sale of Terra Bella signals cool-down in satellite market | A few days ago we heard that Google is selling Terra Bella — the satellite startup it bought for $500 million in 2014 to Planet, Terra Bella’s key competitor.
The deal is a pivotal moment for the earth-observation market — a market that pro... |
| 23.01.2017 | Why even the best tech couldn’t give us a precise inauguration headcount | Alternative facts aside, attendance at President Trump’s inauguration was low. Citing crowd scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain, the New York Times reported an estimated 160,000 people attended Mr.Trump’s speech. Y... |
| 17.01.2017 | TellusLabs wants to help us better understand our planet | If you’ve spent time following companies like Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, you might assume the geospatial analytics race has been won. But TellusLabs thinks, on the contrary, that the table hasn’t even started to cool. Armed with $3... |
| 11.11.2016 | DigitalGlobe’s new imaging satellite makes it to space | This morning, the United Launch Alliance sent an Atlas 5 401 rocket loaded with DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 satellite into space. The satellite will create a new pipeline for sending high quality satellite imagery back to earth.
DigitalGlobe... |
| 20.07.2016 | Uber Teams Up With DigitalGlobe: Satellite Imaging Set To Improve Rider, Driver Experience | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 20 July 2016, 10:07 am
Uber has teamed up with DigitalGlobe that will see the satellite imaging company supply high-resolution satellite images to the ride-sharing service in a multi-year global partnership.
In the ... |
| 19.07.2016 | Uber to get satellite imagery from company that supplies Apple and Google | Uber’s drive to get closer to core components of its business continues as the company has secured a partnership with DigitalGlobe, a satellite imaging company that also provides images to Apple, Google and the U.S. government. DigitalGlobe... |
| 13.07.2016 | DigitalGlobe unveils next-generation imaging satellite | It’s really frustrating when that super-fly Snapchat you took at 55 mph of the unreleased Tesla Model 3 you caught in the wild turns out blurry. DigitalGlobe will be able to snap that picture from 400 miles away, at 17,000 mph, with its new... |
| 27.06.2016 | Orbital Insight lands $20 million from investors, led by GV | Orbital Insight, a three-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based geospatial big data company, has just raised $15 million in Series B funding led by previous investor GV, with participation from CME Ventures and earlier backers Sequoia Capital, Lux ... |
| 13.08.2015 | DigitalGlobe Partners With Mapbox To Launch Its Maps API | DigitalGlobe, the publicly traded, high-res imagery service that owns its own fleet of satellites, has long been known as a purveyor of fine satellite imagery to governments and large companies like Google and Nokia. While these companies t... |
| 22.04.2015 | Williamsburg’s CartoDB adds satellite imagery, exposes Gigafactory | CartoDB and DigitalGlobe released the first photos of Tesla’s Gigafactory on Mashable this weekend. While most people following technology know that Elon Musk has been building a giant battery factory in the Nevada desert, no one has been a... |
| 01.11.2014 | Boulder County area’s largest employers in the private sector | 1.) IBM Corp.
Address: 6300 Diagonal Highway, Boulder, 80301
Phone: 303-924-6300
Website: ibm.com
Stock exchange/symbol: NYSE/IBM
Full-time employees in Boulder County region: 2,800 (estimate)
Part-time employees in Boulder County region: N... |
| 17.06.2014 | Ramp up the resolution: Google and Bing can now use more detailed imagery on maps | If you have ever bemoaned the fact that maps are too blurry on Bing, too grainy on Google, moan no more! US restrictions on the quality of satellite imagery that can be used by online services such as these has been lifted by the US governm... |
| 12.03.2014 | Space Race 2.0 — why this is a great time to invest in space tech | Whether or not the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine and looming U.S. sanctions against Russia will lead to an outright Cold War scenario remains to be seen, but you can be certain that the global geopolitical scene has changed, yet aga... |
| 11.03.2014 | DigitalGlobe’s Tomnod, Crowd Searching for Clues About Missing Plane | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
DigitalGlobe, the Longmont, CO-based satellite imagery provider, has once again turned to the crowd to help analyze its images as part of a disaster recovery effort, this time... |
| 13.02.2014 | Com novo satélite, Google Maps terá imagens ainda mais nítidas e próximas | Neste mês de fevereiro, o Google Maps completa nove anos de existência. No próximo aniversário, talvez a comemoração venha em forma de imagens melhores. É que, até o final de 2014, uma nova geração de satélites capaz de registrar fotos mais... |
| 15.11.2013 | DigitalGlobe Turns to the Crowd to Analyze Post-Typhoon Images | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Since Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines last Thursday, the world has witnessed scenes of devastated villages, destroyed homes, and washed-out roads and bridges.
The ... |
| 28.08.2013 | DigitalGlobe creating real-time heat map of conflict in Africa | DigitalGlobe is using satellite imagery and data analytics to create a real-time map of what’s going on in the world.
DigitalGlobe owns and operates one of the world’s leading commercial satellite constellations. Its imagery collection cont... |
| 04.07.2012 | Google tracks hellish wildfire season in the American West | 2012 US Wildfire Crisis Map
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| 25.01.2012 | George Clooney's Satellites Found Sudanese Tanks Readying for Battle | A new report released by the Satellite Sentinel Project, a human rights campaign started by George Clooney, states that there is strong evidence of the buildup of infrastructural and logistical capabilities with the potential to restrain ci... |
| 15.03.2011 | Platform Tracks Dangers to World’s Historic Sites | The Global Heritage Fund has launched a web-based global tracking platform that identifies, monitors and communicates threatened sites in developing countries to scientists, governments and local activists.
The Global Heritage Network bring... |
| 12.10.2009 | Google Hops On A New Satellite To Watch Us From Space | Last year, there was a lot of coverage of Google striking a deal with satellite imagery company GeoEye to be able to use the high resolution images from its new GeoEye -1 satellite for their Google Earth and Maps products. The exclusive dea... |
| 01.07.2009 | Exit market warms with five IPOs in Q2 | With five venture-backed public offerings, the second quarter was a significant improvement over the first quarter’s zero IPOs. In fact, this is the best the market has performed since the first quarter of 2008. That said, the number still ... |
| 02.09.2005 | AP Offers Satellite View of New Orleans | The Associated Press has released an online tool for viewing satellite images of the situation in New Orleans. Users can zoom in on specific neighborhoods and streets, and view the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina and the subsequent ... |
