Sinch AB and SAP SE announced that Sinch AB has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the SAP Digital Interconnect group, which offers cloud communications products.

IBM announced new services and solutions backed by a broad ecosystem of partners to help enterprises and telecommunications companies speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced the final acquisition of all shares in Ria Blades, S.A., the business entity which owns and operates the onshore wind turbine blade production plant in Vagos, Portugal.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) announced that its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc. (MCA) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Gelest Intermediate Holdings, Inc., the parent of Gelest, Inc.

Inria, ANSSI, Capgemini, Dassault Systèmes, Inserm, Lunabee Studio, Orange, Santé Publique France and Withings have created the StopCovid project team in order to structure and strengthen their contribution to the government project to set up a mobile contact tracing application

B&R has partnered with TTTech Industrial to deliver a range of OPC UA over TSN industrial automation products.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) announced the organizations have agreed to a liaison partnership to work together to advance their shared interests.

The technology partnership between Phoenix Contact, Weidmüller, Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), Fluke Networks, and Telegärtner for the Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) has progressed to create the SPE System Alliance.

Prometheus Group, a provider of asset management operations and optimization software, announced the acquisition of WorkTech, a US-headquartered provider of workforce management and productivity solutions software.