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In a bid to build their expertise in Augmented Reality (AR), Apple have acquired Spektral, a Danish start-up that produces software for cutting out figures from backgrounds in photos and video.

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) look as though they will be roaming our roads quite soon. Tier 1 companies and private equity firms, with large stakes invested already in this sector, have only success in sight.

Apptio – a Washington-based company focused on cloud cost management – announced last week their purchase of FittedCloud, a firm providing specialised tools to help IT departments monitor cloud spending.

Dexcom, California-based creators of continuous glucose monitoring devices, have acquired TypeZero Technologies, a software start-up from the University of Virginia that develops algorithms for artificial pancreas systems.

In a deal of undisclosed size, MariaDB corporation has acquired distributed database pioneers Clustrix.

In a move designed to help develop its tools for chip designs, semiconductor giant Intel has acquired NetSpeed Systems – a California-based provider of system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property (IP).