Boston Dynamics

It's a story about not just old versus new industries, but also about new technologies creating new opportunities. In a recent interview with the Federal Times, Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), acknowledged her company was contending with new and...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) has acquired more than 100 companies since February 2001. The search engine giant has not revealed how much it has paid for most of these firms. Among those that were reported, Google typically paid between $10 million and $100 million. There is a handful, however, that...

Conspiracy theorists sharpen your pencils. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics company with a $10.8 million US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract. Does this mean Google is about to start supplying the U.S. military with “killer robots...