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This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

TechCrunch

“I have to choose my words carefully,” says Joe Castelino of Stevens Creek Volkswagen in San Jose, California, when asked about the management software on which most car dealerships rely for inventory information, marketing, customer relationships and more. Yet he learned plenty over the subsequent four years.

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Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia team up to develop next-generation supercomputers for cars

The Verge

The new platform will be based on Nvidia’s system-on-a-chip Orin technology and will also use the San Jose-based company’s full Drive AGX software stack. Nvidia’s Drive system can track a driver’s head and eyes to assess when they’re paying attention to the road, and it can monitor blink frequency to assess drowsiness.

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The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn

The Verge

John Fort, who has been on Decoder , he’s now an anchor at CNBC , he was a cub reporter at the San Jose Mercury News at the time, and Springboard is full of clips of his byline as a newspaper reporter. There was a lot of attention being paid to this company. People were still covering it. And he has some unique theories on that.

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Build great companies, then help build a great world

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. Many of these opportunities are not as lucrative as the ones that business owners and technologists have focused on over the last decades, but they still demand our attention. Philanthropy? Bleeding hearts?

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