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Innovative integration drives automotive group to SAP awards

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Well, when it comes to a nationwide automotive group in the world’s largest automotive market, that proverb about a hundred could be hundreds of thousands. Founded in 2006 and based in Shanghai, China Grand Automotive Services Group Co., CGA) is China’s leading passenger car dealership and service business.

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Sylndr, an online used-car retailer, raises $12.6M pre-seed to disrupt Egypt’s automotive market

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But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Some include U.K.’s

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

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VW’s primary goal for the project is to reduce the cost of manufacturing, accelerate time to market, tailor solutions for its unique manufacturing needs, increase safety, and scale the solution to all its factories globally. Automotive Industry, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation

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Salesforce seeks to unify automobile supply chain with Automotive Cloud

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Now Salesforce is hoping to sweep that away with Salesforce Automotive Cloud, a dedicated platform for the auto industry that sticks close to industry standards on data exchange. Michael Ramsey, a VP and automotive analyst at Gartner, said Automotive Cloud offers a way for auto makers to take back control of their branding. “At

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A Tribute to Mark Smail: A Great Automotive Leader and Friend

Perficient

The FDAF is a group of dealers that are focused on regional marketing. My role was to help them with their digital marketing, provide an industry perspective, and lead all their war rooms. I learned so much about automotive from these great connections, spanning perspectives from the manufacturers to the dealerships.

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Eatron, which makes ‘intelligent automotive software’, raises $11M Series A led by MMC

TechCrunch

So, the more this embedded automotive software is de-coupled from the underlying electronic hardware, the more this optimization can take place, and the more efficient vehicles can become. based Eatron , which makes this “intelligent automotive software”, has managed to attract an $11 million Series A funding round led by the U.K.’s

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Kneron releases its first automotive-grade chip for ADAS and AV systems

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Kneron has launched its first automotive-grade chip — fueled by funds from Foxconn, Alibaba, Sequoia, Horizons Ventures, and Qualcomm — that it says could revolutionize the path to vehicle autonomy. With the new chip, the Kneron KL530, the startup is looking to take a greater share of the automotive market.