People & Places

Vancouver, Canada. 03 August, 2022 – Trainerize, the fitness business software making wellness accessible by empowering businesses to better engage with their members, announces its latest integration with Garmin, a global provider of smartwatches, fitness trackers and digital health solutions.

Seattle and Bedford, Mass., 5 August 2022 – Amazon and iRobot announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire iRobot. iRobot has a history of making customers’ lives easier with innovative cleaning products for the home. iRobot has continued to innovate with every product generation, solving hard problems to help

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) has completed the acquisition of Brightly Software, a U.S.-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of asset and maintenance management solutions. The acquisition elevates SI to a position in the software market for buildings and built infrastructure. It adds Brightly’s well-established cloud-based capabilities across key sectors – education, public infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing –

Van Buren Charter Township, United States. 03 August, 2022 – Visteon Corporation, a global technology company serving the mobility industry, has developed an integrated system that dynamically improves the vehicle display contrast ratio. The company’s solution uses proprietary advanced algorithms to control the full array local dimming display. A matrixed array of LEDs behind the

The Woodlands, United States. 04 August, 2022 – SPYR, Inc., a diversified technology company developing products leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) for consumer use and large-scale applications and industries, is pleased to announce its wholly owned subsidiary GeoTraq has now completed a full suite of mobile IoT asset management tools that it believes can

On July 30th, a paper was published revealing a devastating attack on the Post-Quantum Algorithm (PQA) SIKE. The algorithm was well-respected as a candidate for further study in the fourth round of the NIST PQA process. It was particularly favoured by large technology companies such as AWS, Cloudflare and Google who were experimenting with and

Shanghai, China. 03 August 2022 – Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has published a new whitepaper, titled ‘Which connectivity is the smart choice for POS and vending?’ The paper explores which connectivity is the most effective connectivity technology for smart point of sale (POS) and vending devices. Both industries have been revolutionised

Fort Mill, S.C. & Pittsburgh, 2 August 2022 – EPIC iO, a technology specialist in applied AI + IoT (Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things), has announced a new enterprise biosecurity solution portfolio targeting global food safety and spoilage, healthcare, and public transportation. Developed in collaboration with several US academic institutions, the solution portfolio will

Herzliya, Israel and San Francisco, United States – 03 August, 2022 – Otonomo Technologies Ltd., the platform powering the mobility economy, announced that Rekor Systems, Inc. and Otonomo are expanding their existing relationship with a multi-year contract supporting the mission of improving road and driver safety. 

Austin, Texas and San Jose, United States. 03 August, 2022 – Endace and Vectra announced an integration partnership that combines Endace’s packet capture and always-on network recording with the Vectra AI-driven threat detection and response platform. The combination of the two products gives security teams accurate discovery at all attack stages with conclusive forensic evidence,

San Jose, California & Sydney – Energous Corporation, a developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks and Flagship a technology company empowering retailers to make better, faster and more informed decisions for their business and customers announced the retail deployment of Wiliot Internet of Things (IoT) Pixel smart tags energised by WattUp PowerBridges has been deployed at a

Tokyo, Japan. 2 August 2022 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced a new addition to the RX 32-bit MCU Family, the RX660 group of microcontrollers (MCUs) that supports operating voltages of up to 5V, offering superior noise tolerance for home appliances and industrial equipment exposed to high electromagnetic interference.

Sunnyvale, California – Quanergy Systems, Inc., a provider of LiDAR sensors and smart 3D solutions, announced that Nanjing Port (Group) Co., Ltd., has successfully deployed Quanergy’s M-Series LiDAR sensors. Quanergy’s partner, Nanjing Jiuao Technology Co., Ltd., developed the solution and managed the installation and integration.

Lausanne, Switzerland & Seattle USA, 27 July 2022 – Astrocast, a global nanosatellite IoT network operator, and Soracom, a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, announce a partnership to embed the Astrocast Satellite IoT (SatIoT) solution into the Soracom platform. This collaboration enables Soracom to offer integrators and end customers blended IoT connectivity options that comprise satellite and

02 August, 2022 – Camarillo, United States , & Vancouver, Canada – Semtech Corporation, a global supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, and Sierra Wireless, Inc., a Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, announced a definitive agreement under which Semtech will acquire all outstanding shares of Sierra Wireless for [$31 per

Waldkirch, Germany & Mountain View, United States – Aeva, a provider in next-generation sensing and perception systems, and SICK AG announced a strategic multi-year collaboration to bring Aeva’s FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) 4D LiDAR to a variety of industrial sensing applications including long range sensing, starting with Aeries II.