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According to the latest release of the Worldwide Semiannual Industry Cloud Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC), five large industry groups are expected to spend a total of $37.5 billion on industry cloud solutions in 2018. The five industry groups are healthcare, public sector, finance, retail/wholesale, and manufacturing. Among them, manufacturing grew the … [Read more...] about Worldwide Spending on Industry Cloud by Retailers and Wholesalers Forecast to Reach $6.1 Billion in 2018

Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA), today announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that improvements in capacity and spectral efficiency can enable … [Read more...] about First 400G Transmission Across 6,600km Trans-Atlantic Marea Cable Using Acacia Communications AC1200 Coherent Module Achieves Spectral Efficiency of 6.41 b/s/Hz

Led by Georgian Partners, funding round brings the total raised to $55 Million Chorus.ai, creator of the number one conversation intelligence platform for high-growth sales teams, today announced it has closed a $33 million series B round. The round was led by Georgian Partners with participation by returning investors Redpoint Ventures and Emergence Capital. Simon Chong, … [Read more...] about Chorus.ai Raises $33M Series B Financing to Advance Quota Attainment Transformation for High-growth Sales Teams

Quebec Company Provides Cutting-Edge Solutions for New Wave of Lightweight Robots That Free Humans from Repetitive Tasks Robotiq, a pioneering provider of tools and software for the fast-growing, collaborative-robotics market, has raised $31 million in funding from global investment firm Battery Ventures. It is the company’s first round of institutional financing. As part of … [Read more...] about Robotiq Raises Can$31 Million in Funding from Battery Ventures

Tier IV, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the Autoware Foundation, an open alliance for autonomous driving technology jointly initiated by Apex.AI, Inc., Linaro/96Boards, and Tier IV, Inc. The Autoware Foundation is a non-profit organisation created to initiate, grow, and fund open source collaborative engineering Autoware projects, starting with Autoware.AI, … [Read more...] about The Autoware Foundation – An Open Alliance for Autonomous Driving Technology

The Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation today announced an agreement to bring the Joint Development Foundation into the Linux Foundation family to make it easier to collaborate through both open source and standards development. The Joint Development Foundation is a nonprofit that provides a "standards organization in a box" to enable groups to quickly … [Read more...] about The Joint Development Foundation Joins the Linux Foundation Family to Drive Adoption of Open Source and Standards

Intel technology is the foundation for many of the world’s most important innovations and advances. At CES 2019, Intel will highlight the future of computing and explore advancements in the client, network, cloud and edge designed to unlock human potential. Intel News Conference – “Innovations and the Compute Foundation” Join Intel executives, Client Computing Group Senior … [Read more...] about Intel to Showcase Technology Innovation for the Next Era of Computing at CES 2019

Dense Air today announced it had won spectrum in the six largest Australian cities, by participating in the ACMA 5G Spectrum Auction. The acquired spectrum supports 5G operation in 3GPP band n77/78. Dense Air is a new class of wholesale network operator, that “enhances and extends” coverage and capacity by offering neutral host “Carrier of Carriers” services, supporting … [Read more...] about Dense Air to offer Neutral Host 5G Densification Services in Australia

This round was led by Octopus Ventures, one of WaveOptics’ largest shareholders and one of Europe’s most prominent venture capital firms. The fundraise was supported by other existing shareholders including IP Group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Gobi Partners, as well as new investors Goertek and Optimas Capital Partners. Goertek is a global leader in the design and … [Read more...] about WaveOptics, the world leading designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides for use in Augmented Reality (AR) wearables, has raised $26 million