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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned anything about Niantic being an "independent" spinoff from Google/Alphabet.

Interesting to think about what personal information they're gaining from this, as well as mapping information.



Nintendo (along with Google and the Pokemon Company, which Nintendo also partially owns) invested $30 million into Niantic 9 months ago [1].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/nintendo-g...




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