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Google will buy Skybox Imaging, a satellite imaging company,...

Google will buy Skybox Imaging, a satellite imaging company, for $500 million, it said. The satellites “will help keep Google Maps accurate with up-to-date imagery,” Google said Tuesday in a news release (http://bit.ly/1kN2iOx). Google said it also would like to…

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use Skybox to help improve Internet access and disaster relief. The announcement follows reports that Google is planning to provide satellite broadband to remote areas (CD June 5 p5).