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Facebook to buy Titan Aerospace for $60 million

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<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/facebook-to-buy-titan-aerospace-for-60.html" target="_blank">Facebook</a> is <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">reportedly</a>
 in talks to purchase New Mexico-based drone maker Titan Aerospace for 
$60 million. The social networking giant isn’t interested in competing 
with Amazon in the retail delivery space but instead wants to use the 
company’s technology to bolster their Internet.org initiative.<br />

Titan Aerospace specializes in making near-orbital drones that use 
solar power to stay in flight for up to five years at a time. Facebook’s
 plan is to use these drones to help deliver Internet access to parts of
 the world that are largely without – like Africa.<br />

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Sources claim <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/facebook-to-buy-titan-aerospace-for-60.html" target="_blank">Zuckerberg</a> and company want to initially build 11,000 
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), model Solara 60. As seen in the clip 
above, these drones are best described as atmospheric satellites because
 they can conduct many of the same operations of a true orbital 
satellite at a fraction of the cost.<br />

Last summer, Facebook’s <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/facebook-to-buy-titan-aerospace-for-60.html" target="_blank">CEO </a>outlined a plan to connect the next five 
billion people in the world to the Internet. We may seem like a very 
connected planet but the truth is that the majority of Earth’s 
inhabitants still don’t have access to the web. That’s something 
<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/facebook-to-buy-titan-aerospace-for-60.html" target="_blank">Zuckerberg</a> and a handful of other tech firms hope to change over the 
coming years.<br />

The idea to connect the world using a fleet of high<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/facebook-to-buy-titan-aerospace-for-60.html" target="_blank">-flying</a> machinery 
isn’t entirely new as Google unveiled a similar plan for Internet 
coverage last year. Project Loon aims to use hot air balloons equipped with solar panels to transmit a web connection to those living within range.