Luxembourg, Dhahran, Athens. 01 September, 2022 – OQ Technology, a global 5G IoT (Internet of Things) satellite operator, has closed a €13 million  Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm at Aramco (the Saudi oil and gas company), and Phaistos Investment Fund, managed by 5G Ventures in Greece.

Sunnyvale, California. 30 August 2022 – Trimble announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Bilberry, a French technology company specialising in selective spraying systems for sustainable farming. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to certain closing conditions and regulatory approval. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Taichung, Taiwan, 30 August 2022 – Gogoro Inc., a global technology specialist in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, has announced it is partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) and Taichung City Taiwan to launch GoShare, Gogoro’s electric mobility sharing service for the residents of Taichung City, Taiwan’s second most populated.

Thalwil, Switzerland, and Seoul, South Korea. 30 August 2022 – u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has announced the expansion of its PointPerfect global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation service to the South Korean market as of the 1st of September 2022. It is the PPP-RTK (Precise Point Positioning, Real-Time Kinematic) high

26 August 2022 – Tuya Smart, an IoT development platform service provider, joined hands with 3 of its Spanish partners Imprex Europe S.L, Energeeks Iberia S.L, and Nivian for the BornSmart campaign, taking place across a range of social media channels.

If a boom goes on too long, Elon Musk says you get a misallocation of capital, “it starts raining money on fools.” True success depends on having the necessary skills to create innovative products, as Max Nirenberg, CEO of Commit USA tells Jeremy Cowan. IT consultant Peter Bowen shares a couple of horror stories with critical lessons for all of

Milpitas, United States – SMART Global Holdings, Inc., announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Stratus Technologies, a global provider in simplified, protected, and autonomous computing solutions in the data centre and at the Edge.

“Industry surveys show that nearly half of all processes are not accurately tuned. A poorly tuned process can result in bad readings, wasted materials and downtime.”

Osaka & Tokyo, Japan – Kubota Corporation and Accenture have formed a new joint venture company, Kubota Data Ground, Inc., to accelerate the digital transformation (DX) of the Kubota group’s business model and operating infrastructure. The new company will begin operations on September 1, 2022.

Tokyo, Japan – Bridgestone Corporation announced that the company is using Amazon Web Services, Inc. as its strategic cloud provider in support of the company’s sustainable mobility solutions. Using AWS Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and analytics / business intelligence services, Bridgestone will accelerate the creation of digital platforms to launch new solutions for its customers, improve

This is the age of distributed network environments. The wave of transformation brought about by digitisation, the Internet of Things and increasingly decentralised hardware landscapes and systems brings new challenges for IT departments, says Alan Stewart-Brown, VP EMEA, Opengear.

Taipei, Taiwan, 1 September 2022 – Advantech, a provider of embedded computing solutions, is pleased to announce that its UNO series of IoT edge gateways have qualified for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet of Things (IoT) Greengrass, an IoT open source edge runtime and cloud service that facilitates the development, deployment, and management of device

Luxembourg, 1 September 2022 – OQ Technology, a global 5G IoT (Internet of Things) satellite operator, has closed a 13 million Euro Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the ventue capital arm at Aramco (the Saudi oil and gas company), and Phaistos Investment Fund, managed by 5G Ventures in Greece.

Taipei, Taiwan, 31 August 2022 – Advantech, a global embedded computing provider, is pleased to announce a pair of new SQFlash PCIe Gen.4 SSD solutions: the SQF 930 and SQF ER-1. IoT is driving surging demand for high-performance storage.

31 August 2022 – Satellite IoT specialist Wyld Networks has signed a partnership with the Swiss-based provider of the Internet of Things, Miromico AG. As part of the agreement, Miromico will help Wyld with the design, engineering and manufacture of its next generation of low-power, sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN terminals and modules for IoT applications across areas

29 August 2022 – Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has announced that its 5G NR module RM520N-GL, compliant with 3GPP Release 16 (R16) standards, has been certified to operate on T-Mobile’s 5G and LTE-A networks in the United States.