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 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).