GM, Cruise partner with Microsoft to speed up self-driving EV technology
(WorldNews Business)

General Motors and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise will partner with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles, the companies said Tuesday. Additionally, GM will use Microsoft as its preferred public cloud provider, working with it to improve the automaker`s advances in digital technology and robotics. Microsoft joins GM, Honda and institutional investors in a combined new equity investment of more than $2 billion in Cruise. That brings Cruise`s post-money valuation,...