Siemens execs hope to attract more users to the company’s Mindsphere industrial IoT (IIoT) platform with the acquisition of low-code, rapid application development platform Mendix, as Jessica Twentyman reports. Last week, German industrial group Siemens announced it was to acquire Mendix, a developer of a ‘low-code’ application development platform, designed to help business users build…
Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. Do you worry about the so-called “kill zones” of big tech companies? The Economist thinks you should. The theory basically suggests that if your product or service is anyway threatening or accretive to one of these incumbents, they will either force-buy your company or clone it…
Siemens execs hope to attract more users to the company’s Mindsphere industrial IoT (IIoT) platform with the acquisition of low-code, rapid application development platform Mendix, as Jessica Twentyman reports. Last week, German industrial group Siemens announced it was to acquire Mendix, a developer of a ‘low-code’ application development platform, designed to help business users build…
Japan-based accounting software company Freee, one of the country’s most-prominent startups, has raised a $60 million Series E funding round as it bids to expand its services into other areas of management for its customers. Freee was founded six years ago — we wrote about the startup when it raised a Series A in 2013 —…
With increasing regularity, bots are helping us get things done by having conversations with us, understanding our needs, and triggering the appropriate actions. But there are concerns in some quarters that the information these bots garner about us, and the inferences they can make from that information, creates new data that can be used in…
Zillow, the publicly traded real estate portal and lead generation service, has acquired Mortgage Lenders of America. This is Zillow’s first move into originating mortgages. Until now, the company’s focus in this space was on providing home buyers with quotes from a variety of third-party lenders. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Mortgage Lenders…
Workers at a Ford car plant are wearing skin-tight bodysuits equipped with sensors to help improve their postures and enhance productivity. Employees at Ford’s Valencia Engine Assembly Plant, in Spain, are using a special suit equipped with body tracking technology. The pilot system, created by Ford and the Instituto Biomecánica de Valencia, has involved 70…
There’s yet more Alex Jones/Infowars news. Facebook yanked four of the conspiracy theorist’s videos from its platform last week, and now it has finally taken more stringent action after it removed four Infowars pages from the social network entirely. Over the weekend Spotify, Stitcher and Apple all removed Infowars audio content from their platforms days after YouTube…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has slammed the escalating trade war between China and the US as a “tax on the consumer”. In an earnings call to analysts on Apple’s record results, Cook said, “Our view on tariffs is that they show up as a tax on the consumer and wind up resulting in lower economic…
ARM Holdings, the UK-based chipmaker owned by Japanese technology and investment conglomerate SoftBank, is on the cusp of buying US data analytics start-up Treasure Data for around $600 million. Bloomberg cited unnamed sources who said that ARM would be looking to boost its IoT ambitions with the acquisition of the seven-year old, Mountain View CA-based…
