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Restaurant tech company chews on growth opportunities | Busi…

Clearwater point-of-sale technology company Omnivore is on the cutting edge of some popular software applications designed to bring efficiency to the restaurant industry. But that doesn’t mean CEO Dan Singer believes the robots are about to take over, with Siri serving a pizza or Alexa taking cocktail orders. “It’s not …

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Rantizo ag drone company moving to new facility in southwest…

Three years after its founding, Rantizo has outgrown its current Iowa City location. Rantizo, an agricultural drone-spraying company, is moving from its 105 Iowa Ave. office to a new facility close to Highway 1 at the southwestern edge of Iowa City. “We’ll have everything under one roof with offices, workshops, …

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Intel Agency Worker Pushed His Own Drone Company, Report Det…

In 2014, the co-founder of an anti-drone technology company decided to leverage an unusual marketing asset: his employment at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.  The employee obtained classified information, arranged access to lawmakers and other officials, and even entered his company, DroneShield, in government-sponsored drone competitions before his use of official …

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This company is using drones to replant forests devastated b…

Regenerating the forests that sat on much of that land would ordinarily take years and involve hundreds of people manually replanting saplings grown in dedicated nurseries. Seattle-based DroneSeed has what it says is a much faster and more effective solution. As the company’s name suggests, it uses fleets of drones …

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Kiwi drone company really taking off in the US

Hastings innovator Simon Morris left yesterday for another North American trade expo with his head still in the clouds as he tries getting to grips with the takeoff of a new venture which is almost as quick as that of the drones he’s now marketing around the world. Based at …

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Flying-car company Terrafugia announces merger with drone de…

The photo shows the ceremony marking the establishment of Aerofugia Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. on Sept. 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Di) CHENGDU, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Flying-car company Hubei Geely Terrafugia on Tuesday announced its merger with Chinese drone developer AOSSCI to form Aerofugia Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. The new company, …

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One Company Could Transform U.S. Drone Industry

A Pentagon initiative for open-source drones is sending ripples beyond the military market. Small military drones will now conform to the new Blue sUAS standard, encouraging suppliers to use software supplied by open-source leaders Auterion. Last week five new drones were cleared for purchase by U.S. military customers under the …

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Montana drone technology company acquired for $350M

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) – An international electronic warfare company has acquired a drone technology company in southern Montana for $350 million. CACI International purchased Ascent Vision Technology earlier this month, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. Ascent Vision Technology develops and builds drone technology for military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance based …

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