In both cases apart from the damage you may cause you can lose a lot of money. Drone owners are also more and more often accused of invading someone’s privacy. When half a pound piece of plastic and metal falls down from a few hundred feet it can cause an accident. How to make sure that you drone flight is safe? You can rely on your skills or on the technology but there is always a risk that something will go wrong. One of them was Tsunekazu Ishihara – the CEO of the Pokémon Company. The game is a bit niche but it has millions of fans around the world. The idea behind Ingress was to connect the virtual and physical space, where players from two factions “fight” in the real world to conquer different places. But the first big success was a real-time location-based game called Ingress. Niantic’s first product, published in 2012, was the Field Trip app, Google’s location-based tour guide. The purpose of Niantic was always a very clear: the fusion of geolocation, mobile apps and entertainment. Six year later Hanke decided to search for new challenges and he founded a new project called Niantic Labs, which was an internal startup within Google. John Hanke became to be the VP of Product Management for Google’s Geodivision but he remained an entrepreneur at heart. After 3 years Keyhole was acquired by Google for $35 million and its Earth Viewer software was a foundation of Google Earth released a few months later. It got funding from investors including Sony, NVIDIA and CIA. Founded in 2001, the company was a pioneer in geospatial data visualization. John Hanke started his career working in foreign affairs for the United States Government in Washington, DC. A few years later, after he received his MBA, Hanke started one of his firsts companies – Keyhole Inc. John Hanke was one of the founders of Keyhole, the company Google acquired to start Google Earth, and for many years he was in charge of Google Maps.
But for many GeoGeeks his name might sound familiar. The father of this success is John Hanke, the founder and the CEO of Niantic, the company that developed Pokémon Go. In the US, the number of active users is estimated at 21 million and it is believed that the number of users all around the world may soon exceed 200 million.
Nintendo’s shares skyrocketed, recording the biggest rise since 1983.
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