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FoundingEdit
John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic
The company was formed in 2010 by John Hanke as Niantic Labs, an internal startup within Google. The company took its name from the whaling vessel Niantic, which came to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush in the 1800s. At the time Ingress was launched, Niantic had 35 employees.
Hanke became the co-founder and CEO of geospatial data visualization firm Keyhole in 2001.Early funding was provided by the corporate venture group within Sony, and the startup was able to garner significant attention from the use of their mapping technology in media reporting overlays during the early parts of the Iraq War. Keyhole's mapping technology was also noted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Google acquired Keyholein 2004 in a deal worth $35 million in stock.
originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: putnam6
Niantic was responsible for such games as PokéMon Go. I'll have to dig again, but I was once under the impression that some of the big heads in this company were former Pentagon and C.I.A. .
Strange beginning.
nianticlabs.com...
FoundingEdit
John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic
The company was formed in 2010 by John Hanke as Niantic Labs, an internal startup within Google. The company took its name from the whaling vessel Niantic, which came to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush in the 1800s. At the time Ingress was launched, Niantic had 35 employees.
Wiki~ en.m.wikipedia.org...(company)
John Hanke
Hanke became the co-founder and CEO of geospatial data visualization firm Keyhole in 2001.Early funding was provided by the corporate venture group within Sony, and the startup was able to garner significant attention from the use of their mapping technology in media reporting overlays during the early parts of the Iraq War. Keyhole's mapping technology was also noted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Google acquired Keyholein 2004 in a deal worth $35 million in stock.
en.m.wikipedia.org...
S&F👍🏼😊
originally posted by: putnam6
originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: putnam6
Niantic was responsible for such games as PokéMon Go. I'll have to dig again, but I was once under the impression that some of the big heads in this company were former Pentagon and C.I.A. .
Strange beginning.
nianticlabs.com...
FoundingEdit
John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic
The company was formed in 2010 by John Hanke as Niantic Labs, an internal startup within Google. The company took its name from the whaling vessel Niantic, which came to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush in the 1800s. At the time Ingress was launched, Niantic had 35 employees.
Wiki~ en.m.wikipedia.org...(company)
John Hanke
Hanke became the co-founder and CEO of geospatial data visualization firm Keyhole in 2001.Early funding was provided by the corporate venture group within Sony, and the startup was able to garner significant attention from the use of their mapping technology in media reporting overlays during the early parts of the Iraq War. Keyhole's mapping technology was also noted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Google acquired Keyholein 2004 in a deal worth $35 million in stock.
en.m.wikipedia.org...
S&F👍🏼😊
Like it is all interconnected, makes you wonder how much influence a CIA or NSA has over such a companyedit on 19-11-2021 by putnam6 because: (no reason given)
Niantic was responsible for such games as PokéMon Go.
originally posted by: ThatDamnDuckAgain
a reply to: Bigburgh
Niantic was responsible for such games as PokéMon Go.
Never played the game or watched the movies/series, but I know what it's about.
What better tool to get fresh surveillance in putting one of the rare ones that the youth freaked out about, near a point of interest.
originally posted by: The GUT
A more realistic view of the spiderweb called Silicon Valley.
"Today the counterinsurgency origins of the internet have been obscured. They’ve been lost for the most part. Very few histories even mention it, even in a little bit. But at the time that it was being created in the 1960s, the origins of the internet and the origins of this technology as a tool of surveillance and as a tool of control were very obvious to people back then".
MICHAEL LEE: Facebook is one of the worst companies ever created. I believe that it's… an evil company. I think they have so much research internally that talks about the devastation that they can do to people's minds, young people's minds. In addition to the child trafficking issue, I don't see there being any repercussions.
The hardware device is the first of its kind to come out of Facebook’s Building 8 innovation lab. Building 8 was launched in 2016 under the direction of former DARPA chief Regina Dugan.
The dream of DARPA’s LifeLog has now been realized 14 years later with Facebook and the launch of Portal, which was built in a research lab modeled after DARPA.
Building 8
Obama wasn't the only one making the otherworldly voyage. As "Barry Soetero," the 19-year-old Obama was one of 10 youths selected to secretly teleport to and from Mars, forming a band of interplanetary Teen Titans. Regina Dugan, the director of DARPA, was another member.
White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
According to Basiago and Stillings, this “chrononauts” program (no, not the card game, and no, not the comic), also included the former DARPA head Regina Dugan.