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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO

Industry clouds are increasingly becoming go-to solutions for IT leaders seeking services tailored to their verticals. For the innovative few, co-creating custom industry solutions in conjunction with cloud providers can not only fulfill an internal need but also provide the opportunity to develop a new source of revenue from their IT IP.

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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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HAAS Alert raises $5M seed round to scale its automotive collision prevention system

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HAAS Alert, a SaaS company that provides real-time automotive collision prevention for public safety and roadway fleets, has raised $5 million in seed funding that the company says it will use to scale sales and outreach efforts and prioritize R&D with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technology partnerships.

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

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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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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO

But it is the cloud — and Ford’s cloud-first strategy — that is propelling Ford’s transformation where the rubber meets the road. Google Cloud’s strength in data analysis and AI tools is a perfect fit for this new world of software-defined vehicles,” McCarthy says. “It We use the cloud software that we’re building.

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China’s New Energy Vehicles Make Waves in Automotive Industry

IDC

NEVs Accelerate China’s Automotive Industry’s Intelligent Transformation and Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) Becomes its Driver. Automotive Cloud Expected to Grow at a Five-Year CAGR of 53.6%.

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Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint

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Morai , which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving systems, announced today it has raised $20.8 million (25 billion KRW) in a Series B funding round as it wants to increase its global presence, specifically into the U.S., Germany, Japan and Singapore. .