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It would very interesting to link this Khoury to this other Kouri and then to Elon Musk/PayPal (money laundering). But that would be crayzee.
Oops. Forgot to include this up there
The Musk bros., Kouri and Navteq
The *coincidental* South Africa connection between Navteq (Karlin) and Zip2 (Musk bros./Kouri)
Navteqâs main/initial investor, T. Russell Shields of SEI, provided seed money of $500K: â(Karlin and Collins) were turned down by most venture capital firmsâŠâ
âSEI's government operations division helped develop fundamental systems for the U.S. Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration, and the Central Intelligence Agency.â
Just tenuous speculation at this point, but SEI, which had contracts with the CIA as âan IT consulting organization, (and) built many pioneering, high-speed, high-volume, data-management-and-transaction processing systemsâ, invested in Navteq: +
âIn 1985, SEI helped to launch Navigation Technologies (now Navteq), pioneering the development of the world's most comprehensive, navigable map database and routing tools and the leading provider of map databases and related software for location service applications.â
âElon Musk combined a 
free
Navteq database with a Palo Alto business database to create the first systemâ to link local businessesâ services with their location.
free Navteq database with a Palo Alto business database to create the first systemâ to link local businessesâ services with their location.
âZip2 struck deals with The New York Times, Knight Ridder, and Hearst Corporation and its collaboration with newspapers made it a major component of the U.S. newspaper industry's response to the online city guide industryâ
In early 1999, Compaq Computer paid $305M to acquire Zip2.
With this money, Musk and Kouri launch http://X.com later in the year which is then merged with Confinity to become PayPal.
With this money, Musk and Kouri launch http://X.com later in the year which is then merged with Confinity to become PayPal.
(not my best thread haha)
NVision â Boeing Co. & Navteq demonstrates tool for counter-terrorism https://mycoordinates.org/newsbriefs-%e2%80%93-gps-14/
âBefore making a map, one needs geographic information. Where are all the cities, rivers, houses, political boundaries, bicycle paths, etc. There are lots of sorts of data we may want, and all of this is called vector data. +
âLarge amounts of vector data are collected and owned mostly by governments and a small number of companies. This data is collected by on-the-ground surveying, using GPS, with aerial imagery, +
âfor a whole-world set of data there are now only two companies that own a decent set: Nokia (through buying Navteq) and TomTom (through buying Teleatlas). http://www.faganfinder.com/geo/
Bonus bit of info from that link:
âWikipedia is a great source of information about places. A lot of the information there originated from the World Factbook, an annual publication by the CIA.â
âWikipedia is a great source of information about places. A lot of the information there originated from the World Factbook, an annual publication by the CIA.â
âNokia has acquired MetaCarta, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that specializes in geographic information.â https://www.power-grid.com/2010/04/16/nokia-acquires-geographic-information-company-metacarta/
âMetacarta currently has over 30 employees, and has received funding from In-Q-Tel (the investment arm of the CIA)â
All of this GPS mapping is really about robotic cars
âPeople think weâre with the CIA. I know it kind of looks like that.â
âPeople think weâre with the CIA. I know it kind of looks like that.â
âBut they arenât spies. Theyâre field analysts working for the GPS mapping company Navteq and theyâre laying the foundation for the future of driving.â
