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Waymo Finalizes $5.6 Billion in Investments, Gave 100,000 Paid Rides
Despite legions of naysayers in the media, there is strong financial interest in autonomous vehicles as Waymo closed $5.6 billion in an investment round late last...
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John Deere, Trimble Partner for SmartGrade Access
Trimble TRMB 1.04%↑ has partnered with John Deere DE 0.48%↑ to integrate its Earthworks Grade Control technology with the John Deere SmartGrade platform. John Deere, which has offered a Trimble...
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Caterpillar and Trimble Extend Joint Venture
Caterpillar CAT -0.77%↓ and Trimble TRMB -1.41%↓ this week announced the extension of their long-standing joint venture. The agreement includes expanded distribution of grade control solutions...
Verizon Launches Emergency Messaging, Location-Sharing Service with Skylo Technologies
Verizon VZ -0.51%↓ has partnered with Skylo Technologies for an emergency messaging and location-sharing service on select Google Pixel and Samsung phones this fall. Next year, Verizon said it would offer text via...
Texas Sues GM Over Location Privacy in Connected Cars
Two major legal proceedings this week focus on location privacy…
The Texas Attorney General's Office has sued GM GM 0.00%↑ over the alleged unlawful gathering and sale of location information from 1.5...
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The Indoor Lab to Install Innoviz Lidar at Major U.S. Airports
Innoviz Technologies INVZ 0.00%↑ entered into a distribution agreement with The Indoor Lab to deploy InnovizTwo lidar at Denver, Tampa, and Nashville International airports. The...
Google Announces New Updates for Maps and Waze
Google GOOG -1.23%↓ this week said that both Maps and Waze will have new features that will make it easier for drivers to report such incidents as nearby construction, lane closures,...
Overture Maps Foundation Announces General Availability of Open Maps Datasets
Overture Maps Foundation has announced the General Availability (GA) of several of its global open maps datasets, which is a free alternative to mapping data...
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Miovision Selects TomTom to Power Traffic Signal Solutions
TomTom has been selected by Miovision to improve signal analytics and in-vehicle solutions with traffic data and real-time/historic traffic...
Feds Open Investigation of Autonomous Vehicle Companies
Biggest series of investigations since the advent of autonomous driving…
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for autonomous vehicle companies as the National Highway Traffic...