In 1980, Mr. Sviridoff resigned from Ford to work full time for the local initiatives group.
She is a marketing manager in New Haven for the corporate initiatives group of General Electric.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Dealmap team will join Google's commerce and local initiatives group.
Studies done by the Urban Land Institute, a real estate research group, show that "amenities count, and these can include public art," said Maureen McAvey, executive vice president for the institute's initiatives group.
"Devices alone are not enough anymore," Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, chief executive of Nokia, said last week in London as the company announced plans for a digital music store, a game service, social networking links and other mobile Internet initiatives, grouped under a new brand, Ovi.
The initiative -- part of the Breakthrough Initiatives group -- is named Breakthrough Listen.
Gorka, who had a failed political career in Hungary before relaunching as a national security editor at Breitbart News, is a close ally of Trump adviser (and former Breitbart chairman) Steve Bannon and sat on the strategic initiatives group, an advisory panel created to offer an alternative viewpoint to the National Security Council.
Officials eased the rules for forming initiative groups, which candidates need to legally gather signatures to get on the ballot.
The anti-Maidan group claims it has no funding from any official or other sources, and is purely an "initiative group" formed by like-minded citizens.
The technical founder of the conference said that he was skeptical about industry intentions in challenging the researchers, particularly since, he said, the basic digital watermark approach being pursued by the Secure Digital Music Initiative group had been disproved three years ago.
