Particle gets $20 million: IoT development platform Particle, which used to be known as Spark, has received $20 million in venture capital to expand its platform. Particle is a public IoT success story from an era when everyone had a hardware-based … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, July 7, 2017
Intel lays off 140 working in IoT: This isn't unexpected after the decision to stop producing several maker boards a few weeks back, but Intel has laid of 140 people in Ireland and in the U.S. who worked on its Joule, Edison and Galileo boards. … [Read more...]
The future of food: Some thoughts on Amazon buying Whole Foods
Amazon said it would pay $42 per share, or $13.7 billion, to purchase Austin-based high-end grocery chain Whole Foods. This is the kind of deal where you see it, experience a moment of surprise and then move straight to nodding your head thinking, of … [Read more...]
How to think about AWS Greengrass and the internet of things
Connectivity isn't a constant and it's not cheap. While consumers might be willing to trade the reliability of analog systems such as a land line for the slightly less reliable cell phone, enterprises and industrial conglomerates are not. That's … [Read more...]
In a connected world your customer may be a competitor
Is Amazon a tech company or a distribution company? That apparently mattered to shipping giant Maersk when it was choosing a provider for its "digital transformation." Maersk, worried about Amazon's distribution plans, went with Microsoft Azure over … [Read more...]