Arm after the IPO

September 14, 2023
“The growth of AI, I believe, is the growth of Arm,” Arm EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey told me this morning, minutes before the chip designer’s stock started trading on Nasdaq. While AI may not always be the first thing you think about when you hear about Arm, when I asked Abbey about […]

DistroKid acquires website builder Bandzoogle to expand its toolset for artists

September 14, 2023
Independent music distribution service DistroKid announced its recent acquisition of Bandzoogle, the website builder designed for musicians. The financial details of the transaction weren’t publicly disclosed. The acquisition is a smart move for the company since DistroKid users can now power digital, physical and on-demand sales “within the DistroKid ecosystem,” the company noted in its […]

Cruise reveals wheelchair-accessible robotaxi with testing to begin next month

September 14, 2023
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt revealed Thursday in San Francisco a prototype of a custom-built, wheelchair accessible, self-driving robotaxi and said that closed course testing of the driverless vehicle would begin in October.  The vehicle, called the Cruise WAV, is the result of three years of product design, development and testing by Cruise and GM along […]