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Salesforce seeks to unify automobile supply chain with Automotive Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

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. A big plus for VW is the ability to mobilize an internally owed IT engineering company for the effort.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Blues previously raised $11 million in April 2020.

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XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling offers $5M to boost innovations in job training

GeekWire

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space travel and computerized avatars, but its latest contest hits closer to home: XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling is offering $5 million in prizes for innovations that could revolutionize job training for under-resourced communities.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

. “Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Top 3 Cyber Predictions in 2023 and How You Can Prepare

ForAllSecure

Automotive cybersecurity is bad. The algorithms don’t scan—they learn and create reproducible tests that trigger those corner cases your developer missed. million missing tests for corner cases the developer missed, of which 1.32 million vehicles. What can you do? There are some small points of light.

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Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs; and more

GeekWire

She spent more than eight years at CarGurus, an online automotive marketplace, as SVP of business development. Jones previously spent more than two decades at Microsoft in sales and business development. Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere announced Dino Rech as its new CEO. Tim Teeter as VP of Business Development.

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