MAGNA Partnership with Lyft

Interesting movement in the Self Driving car area. Who cares?

Lots of driver assistance and LiDAR sensing patents with MVIS at Magna.

There are some Magna Patents that mention MVIS... more than a few.


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Together with Magna, we will accelerate the introduction of self-driving vehicles by sharing our technology with automotive (original equipment manufacturers) worldwide,” Lyft CEO Logan Green said in a statement. “This is an entirely new approach that will democratize access to this transformative technology."

Along with its partnership, Magna will invest $200 million in Lyft. The funding is part of a $1.7 billion round led by Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, according to The Wall Street Journal, and brings Lyft’s valuation to $11.7 billion.

“Lyft’s leadership in ridesharing and Magna’s automotive expertise makes this strategic partnership ideal to effect a positive change as a new transportation ecosystem unfolds,” Magna Chief Technology Officer Swamy Kotagiri said in a statement. 

Sony TV partnership with Xiaomi

There are obvious reasons to watch Sony closely when watching Microvision. 

Xiaomi is also an interesting company to watch. 

Xiaomi is a rapidly growing smartphone company in an outstanding target market for PicoP. Xiaomi is a very innovative company in both technology and business practices. 

Their business practices will allow them to incorporate new technologies with less risk to their business than many other companies.

Xiaomi could be an awesome early adopter of Microvision's PicoP technology, and it could be a raging success in China and India where Xiaomi has a market in place.



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Xiaomi & Sony from GizmoChina (full article here.)

Xiaomi has emerged as one of the biggest and fastest growing company not only in China, but across the world. This fact becomes clear as Sony gave Xiaomi a hand of partnership. As stated by the Ta Kung Pao website located in Hong Kong, the recent partnership of Sony Visual Products and China’s Xiaomi Technology will fare well.

Considering Sony’s relatively good standing in the Chinese market, and the Chinese market’s influence in America, Sony’s venture has been a wise and expected step. However, with this endeavour, Sony will now have to differentiate itself from foreign competitors.

In addition to Xiaomi, Sony has also joined hands with other Chinese corporations Baidu, Wasu TV and Duomi to offer video and photo content via cloud services as well as content portals for Sony.

This Sony-Xiaomi partnership will also be beneficial for Xiaomi and we must say that people at Xiaomi know how to move ahead in this business world.