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Motionloft is a participant in the JR East Start Up Co., the corporate venture capital arm of JR East, which helps collaboration between JR East Japan companies and venture stage companies Motionloft has been selected as one of 18 companies, of which 16 are from Japan and two from overseas. Applications were received from a total of 182 proposals submitted. The program was … [Read more...] about Motionloft has been selected for the JR East (Japan Railway) 2018 Startup program

AWS introduces the ability to run AWS infrastructure and services on-premises to deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience AWS Outposts come in two variants; first, an extension of the fast-growing VMware Cloud on AWS service that runs on AWS Outposts; second, AWS Outposts that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises using the same native AWS APIs used in the … [Read more...] about Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Outposts

SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. (OTC: WNDW; www.solarwindow.com), developer of transparent coatings that turn ordinary glass into electricity-generating windows, today announced the completion of a $25 million equity financing. Kalen Capital Corporation (KCC), the family office of Mr. Harmel S. Rayat, founder and Chairman of the company, has invested approximately $24.9 million … [Read more...] about SolarWindow Raises $25 Million for Manufacturing Electricity-Generating Glass

OpenLegacy, the leader in microservices-based API integration for back-end applications, has closed a funding round of $30 million. The investment will further strengthen its premier market position of enabling established enterprises to go truly digital. OpenLegacy is mission critical for organizations with complex legacy environments, as experienced by its global tier 1 … [Read more...] about OpenLegacy Raises $30 Million from Worldwide Strategic & Financial Investors

With a network of 12 antenna ground stations in AWS Regions around the world customers can download, process, store, analyze, and act upon satellite data quicker with substantial cost savings Initial customers DigitalGlobe, BlackSky, Spire, Capella Space, Open Cosmos, and HawkEye 360 to access antennas on demand; preview starting today Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web … [Read more...] about Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Ground Station

Red Hat enhances portfolio of hybrid cloud technologies with a unified data platform for distributed hybrid and multicloud environments Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has acquired NooBaa, an early stage company developing software for managing data storage services across hybrid and multicloud … [Read more...] about Red Hat Acquires Hybrid Cloud Data Management Provider NooBaa

Leading global sovereign and technology investors from Ireland, Singapore, US and China back its data strategy to expand the reach and power of the leading global platform in genomics Major investments in Ireland aim to create the world's premier genomic and medical dataset, uniquely powered to accelerate drug discovery and deliver meaningful benefits of precision medicine to … [Read more...] about WuXi NextCODE Completes $200 Million Series C Financing

Battery capacity and charging station availability are the biggest concerns manufacturers and retailers must address to increase sales Capgemini today released a study showing that battery capacity and availability of charging stations for electric cars are the two biggest concerns of U.S. consumers that might deter purchases. According to Capgemini's Cars Online Trends Study, … [Read more...] about Study reveals barriers to electric car adoption in US

Islands of Autonomous Delivery to Emerge; Revolutionize Movement of Goods KPMG predicts the development of autonomous delivery vehicles will drastically revolutionize the current consumer e-commerce environment, drive consumer demand for more and faster goods deliveries and lead to an entirely new product delivery ecosystem for shoppers and buyers of goods and services. Using … [Read more...] about Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Miles Traveled To Skyrocket To 78 Billion Per Year By 2040

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new instance offerings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): A1 instances—powered by custom-designed AWS Graviton processors for scale-out workloads P3dn GPU instances—ideal for distributed machine learning and high performance computing applications C5n … [Read more...] about AWS Announces New Amazon EC2 Instances and Networking Enhancements