Google specializes in internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Beyond its core search engine, Google offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for its netbook offering, Chromebook. Its mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
SpaceX is getting into the satellite business. CEO Elon Musk confirmed via tweet that the rocket company is in the early stages of creating a large fleet of micro-satellites, and there… Read more »
Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures signed a 60 year lease with NASA to restore and run the historic airplane hangars. What exactly it will do with the campus is not yet known. Read more »
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Mark Cavage was Joyent’s former VP of engineering who spearheaded the company’s Manta object storage service and Ben Rockwood was Joyent’s former director of cloud operations. Read more »
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