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It seems to be the season for funding announcements: and a recent spate of press releases from drone companies indicates that the sector is still desirable. The drone industry has seen some noted consolidations and exits in the last few years.  Commercial drone solutions provider Airware shut down last year …

When it comes to enterprise drone applications, it’s all about the data – and the drone.  Swiss provider Wingtra, a leading provider of VTOL hybrid drones for industry, has partnered with SimActive, the makers of Correlator 3D software, to offer customers rapid processing of high accuracy maps and survey data. …

Image by Mr_Worker from Pixabay News and commentary. It’s time to get airport airspace security done.  Reuters reports that flight operations at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest airport, were suspended for an hour and have now resumed. At this point there is little information available.  Airport spokesmen commented to news outlets today …

  Drone industry analysts DRONEII use their recent drone industry analysis to point out the key elements of good drone laws – and determine whether or not a country is ready for the commercial drone industry. Guest Post: This article published with permission from our partners at DroneII, Drone Industry …

image courtesy Cape. The following is a guest post by Chris Rittler, CEO of Cape, cloud platform for drone telepresence and data management. College graduation is just around the corner, which means thousands of young, tech-savvy graduates will soon enter the workforce. As new graduates search for careers, several will be …

AirMap CEO David Hose, image courtesy AirMap. AirMap has been a major player in the drone industry since their inception in 2015.  Over time, however, AirMap’s offering has changed: and the company has shifted from being an airspace intelligence platform to staking a place as a global leader in unmanned …

Courtesy of Bjornsphoto – Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. A few days after launching their hard-charging biopic on Netflix, the bad boys of 80s metal, Mötley Crüe, launched a drone loaded with musical gifts to mark the occasion During the Hollywood red-carpet premiere last week of …

As GM of Intel’s drone group, Anil Nanduri has probably got one of the industry’s most exciting jobs. Intel has fingers in all sorts of drone-related pies, from Yuneec to Volocopter to Movidius, to its own drone services and Shooting Star-powered aerial light shows. Nanduri, whose role at Intel gives him leeway …

Post sponsored by Skylum. Professional drone operators in a wide variety of verticals are responsible for providing their clients with professional-quality images – but they don’t always want to invest in expensive software and spend hours in front of a computer doing the painstaking editing that requires. Introducing AirMagic – …

The following is a JD.com press release. JD.com, China’s largest retailer, and Rakuten, Inc., a leading global innovation company in e-commerce, have signed an agreement that will see JD.com’s drones and autonomous delivery robots utilized in Rakuten’s unmanned delivery solutions in Japan. Under the agreement, JD.com will combine its expertise …