How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is “full of bugs”
Financial Times : X: @scobleizer X: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @Techmeme I had a front row seat on how they fell behind. Mercedes Benz had everything Tesla had. Its executives killed everything du...
Soul Machines, which creates AI-powered customer-facing digital avatars for customers like Google, Sony, and Mercedes Benz, raises $40M Series B led by Temasek
Virtual avatars might well be the future of customer support. According to Juniper Research, conversational assistants …
Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler partners with blockchain company Riddle & Code to create a hardware crypto wallet for the auto industry
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Carpooling service Via raises funding round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a JV with Via
As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around connecting …
HERE to fit Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz cars with sensors to gather data on traffic conditions and driver actions for real-time digital map service coming 2017
Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz cars fitted with on-board sensors are to share information in real time about on-street parking spaces and roadworks via a digital map service.
Nokia and Mercedes self-driving car project taps HERE research
Nokia and Mercedes Benz will work together on self-driving cars, the companies have confirmed, with Nokia's HERE developing metadata-rich navigation and mapping data with extra information for robot d...
Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics
Songs that refer to products and brands have been with us for years, from Simon and Garfunkel singing “Mama don't take my Kodachrome away” to Janis Joplin's plea for a new car in “Mercedes Benz” and b...
Lawsuit Challenges Google's Keyword Ads
Google and other search engines have been on the receiving end of a dozen or so lawsuits challenging a common practice in search advertising: the use of someone's trademark, say Mercedes Benz, to show...