Google & CIA invest in Analytics Venture

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s investment arm, have injected sums (less than $10 million each) into Recorded Future, a company that goes through “tens of thousands” of websites and looks for related actions and conversations between, for example, Twitter accounts, blogs and websites, and analyzes them in order to spot events and trends as early on as possible [Source].

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