2015-02-09Other factsSECONDARYKeyhole Inc filed filing with the SEC on 2015-02-09. Accession number: N/A.
2008-04-14Other factsSECONDARYKeyhole Markup Language (KML), created by Keyhole, was adopted as an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) international standard in 2008 and later used by NASA for Earth science data.
2005-11-15TransactionsPRIMARYIn-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google stock worth over $2.2 million on November 15, 2005 — shares obtained through Google's acquisition of Keyhole.
2005-06-28Other factsSECONDARYAfter Google's acquisition, EarthViewer was rebranded as Google Earth in June 2005. Google Earth technology also became the foundation for Google Maps and Street View.
2004-10-27TransactionsSECONDARYGoogle acquired Keyhole Corp in October 2004 for approximately $35 million, immediately reducing the consumer price of Keyhole 2 LT from $69.95 to $29.95 per year.
2004-06-15TransactionsSECONDARYRob Painter, Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel who led the Keyhole investment, joined Google in 2004 as federal manager for Google Earth Enterprise and later ran Google Federal.
2004-05-15Other factsPRIMARYIn May 2004, Skyline Software Systems filed a patent infringement suit against Keyhole over U.S. Patent No. 6,496,189 (remote landscape display). The case was dismissed in favor of Google in March 2007.
2003-03-15Other factsPRIMARYWithin two weeks of In-Q-Tel's engagement, NIMA deployed EarthViewer to support US troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. TV networks including CNN, ABC, and CBS licensed the technology for live war coverage.
2003-03-15TransactionsSECONDARYCNN paid Keyhole $75,000 for a license to use EarthViewer during its coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion — a contract that required CNN to display the Keyhole URL on air.
2003-02-15TransactionsPRIMARYIn February 2003, the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment in Keyhole for approximately $2 million. This was In-Q-Tel's first engagement on behalf of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency…
2001-06-15Other factsSECONDARYKeyhole Inc was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from Intrinsic Graphics, a 3D graphics company co-founded by Brian McClendon and Michael Jones, both former Silicon Graphics engineers.
