Kontron S&T AG, a subsidiary of S&T AG, signed an asset deal with Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH, headquartered in Munich, Germany, to acquire the Augsburg-based Fujitsu industrial mainboard business.

ioTium announced an alliance with Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT).  With the availability of the Telit deviceWISE gateway technology on the ioTium Edge App Store for single-click deployment, the companies are focusing on jointly solving IIoT deployment complexities.

GE Solar and BlackRock announced the creation of a new business, Distributed Solar Development (DSD), a GE Renewable Energy Venture.

Arcline Investment Management, a growth oriented private equity fund with $1.5 billion of capital under management, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Reciprocating Compression division of Baker Hughes, a GE company.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) announced they have agreed to a liaison to work together to advance their shared interests.

At a recent meeting of the German-Chinese Commission for Standardization (DCKN) in Xiamen, China, representatives of VDE|DKE and their Chinese colleagues agreed on closer cooperation.

Aspen Technology, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Mnubo Inc., a Montreal-based provider of purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics infrastructure for the internet of things (IoT).

ABB and the Italian company FIMER S.p.A announced that they have signed an agreement for FIMER to acquire ABB’s solar inverter business.

Emerson has announced that it has completed the purchase of Zedi’s software and automation businesses.

Sumitomo Chemical and Isorg announced their agreement to develop new OPD products, like organic photodetectors, for use as smartphone fingerprint sensors and hybrid organic CMOS image sensors.