AWS CodeCommit , a fully-managed source control service, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. CodeCommit makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories.  

Avis Budget Group is a global provider of transportation solutions. Its Avis and Budget brands have more than 11,000 rental locations in approximately 180 countries around the world. Its Zipcar brand, a leading car sharing network, has more than one million members in over 500 cities and towns.

Avis Budget Group sought to become an API-driven company to reinvent the rental car experience, digitize its business, and develop new business models. The company needed help managing and using its data effectively while also scaling globally.

After deciding to build on AWS, Avis Budget Group chose to work with Slalom to complete a successful PoC on AWS and move forward with a pilot project at Newark airport. Using machine learning (ML), the pilot focused on building a practical on-site solution that could address the over- and under-utilization of cars in real-time using an optimization engine built in Amazon SageMaker. Avis Budget Group plans to roll out the optimization engine to all of its North American locations by December of 2020. The company’s speed of development has improved substantially since building on AWS and working with Slalom. Through the PoC, Avis Budget Group found that moving the needle even a small amount on some of its objectives, such as optimizing car mileage, translates into big benefits for the business and for its customers.

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Today we released the AWS Competency Partner Spotlight, featuring qualified APN Technology and Consulting Partners who have deep expertise and proven customer success in specific areas like Machine Learning, Financial Services, Oralce, and more. 

The AWS Competency Program highlights APN Partners who bring the right expertise for specific business needs by quickly narrowing the search among the tens of thousands of Partners in the APN. AWS Competency Partners are equipped to solve business problems in a complex IT environment.

AWS Competency offerings follow AWS best practices for building the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications.

This APN Spotlight provides success stories for AWS Customers to learn more about APN Partner solutions or technology offerings that can help meet business goals. 

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Cypress Semiconductor is on the block, reports Bloomberg. Following takeover interest, Cypress has hired advisers to explore options for selling the company. Cypress shares went up 13% yesterday after news broke of the move. The shares have gone up 36% this year. In Q1 the company reported a 5.5% drop in revenues but forecast a …

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Distributor, Farnell, has added four compact Arduino MKR shields to its Arduino product range. The accessories – three shields and a motor carrier – can be integrated into battery-powered IoT applications in industrial automation, environmental monitoring, agriculture, tracking and energy monitoring projects. The ENV Shield, RGB Shield and Therm Shield have a standard, modular design and are …

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Encapsulated power modules from Renesas Electronics are now available from distributor, RS Components. The ISL8210M, ISL8212M, ISL82180M and ISL8282M power modules are single-channel, synchronous step-down power modules that provide PoL conversion for fpgas, dsps, asics and memory in servers, storage, optical networking, telecoms and industrial applications. The modules deliver 10A or 15A continuous current at PoL and …

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Believed to be one of the first devices to support Bluetooth Core 5.1, Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52811 SoC is now available from Rutronik UK The Bluetooth Core 5.1 specification was introduced early this year and adds tracking and location functions. The nRF52811 is a multi-protocol SoC that supports IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread and ZigBee and also Bluetooth Direction Finding …

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Inventory corrections, slowing smartphone shipments, and pullbacks in purchase orders throttled sales growth in semiconductor sensors and actuators last year, resulting in a subpar 6% increase in 2018 to a record-high $14.7 billion after double-digit percentage gains in 2017 and 2016, according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, …

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MagnaChip, the Korean analogue and mixed-signal foundry, is offering its second generation 0.13 micron embedded flash technology with 20V and 30V high-voltage options. The technology is specifically designed to address the needs for multi-function hybrid mixed-signal products, including touch ICs, fingerprint readout ICs and wireless power charger ICs. With the growing complexity of analog and mixed-signal …

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Q1 shipments of wearable devices reached 49.6 million units, up 55.2% y-o-y, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. While wrist-worn wearables accounted for the majority of the market with 63.2% share, ear-worn devices experienced the fastest growth (135.1% year over year) and accounted for 34.6% of all wearables shipped. Shipments of wristwear – including …

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