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Microsoft said Tuesday it partnering with General Motors and Cruise to ramp up commercialization of self-driving vehicles.

Microsoft will take a stake in Cruise; Cruise will deploy its self-driving taxis using Azure.

Microsoft joins $2B investment in Cruise to speed commercialization of self-driving vehicles January 19, 2021 at 9:38 am A Cruise autonomous vehicle in Seattle. (Stephen Brashear Photo for Cruise) Microsoft is partnering with Cruise and General Motors to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles by bringing its cloud computing technology to the equation. The tech giant joined a new $2 billion investment in Cruise, along with GM, Honda and others. San Francisco-based Cruise, whos...

GM teams up with Microsoft as electric car market revs

GM Unveils New Logo, Names Operations Chief at Cruise Unit GM Unveils New Logo, Names Operations Chief at Cruise Unit The new logo features GM in lowercase letters and is the first significant change to the companys blocky blue emblem since the 1960s published : 11 Jan 2021 at 04:30 3 General Motors Co. on Friday revealed a new tech-themed corporate logo -- its first major change in decades -- and GMs autonomous-car division hired a new operatio...

Cruise taps former Delta executive for COO post as it creeps toward commercialization Cruise, the autonomous vehicle technology subsidiary of GM, said Friday it has hired Delta Air Lines’ former chief operating officer Gil West as it makes the transition toward early commercialization. West, who had retired from Delta last year, will become Cruise’s first chief operating officer. The announcement comes more than a month after Cruise launched tests on public roads using autonomous vehicles w...

Sponsored Links Cruise has hired former Delta Air Lines senior executive Gil West as its first Chief Operating Officer. West left Delta Air Lines in September of last year, where he was responsible for the company’s worldwide operations. Delta Air Lines operates more than 1,300 planes and serves more than 200 million customers per year. “Gil’s track record of delivering amazing customer experience, exceptional operating performance and flawless safety, all at large scale, is a perfect fit...

GM Unveils New Logo, Names Operations Chief at Cruise Unit The new logo features ‘GM’ in lowercase letters and is the first significant change to the company’s blocky blue emblem since the 1960s Cruise has been refining and testing its autonomous technology on the streets of San Francisco for years. Photo: Paul Sancya/Associated Press By Updated Jan. 8, 2021 1:57 pm ET General Motors Co. GM -0.14% revealed a new tech-themed co...

20 years ago GM was broke just waiting to find a way out. They got the bail out. Ford wanted a way out and took loans they still are paying off along with loans from the government. The way GM operated was a formula of failure. Too many divisions, too many markets they fell behind in. Too many cases where they were selling millions of cars globally but were losing money on nearly everyone. The plan during the bail out was to take the money they had left and build up where they were making mon...

Cruise is Now Testing Driverless Cars in San Francisco Photo: GMC Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand for the last few years — and really, who could blame you — odds are you’ve seen tons of headlines about autonomous driving technology. One of the companies on the cutting-edge of this futuristic innovation is the GM-backed Cruise. Recently, Cruise reached a major milestone — becoming the fifth organization to test vehicles on the streets of San Francisco. Pioneering a drive...