Tag: $2.8

05 JAN

VW diesel settlement's $2.8 billion: Here's how states will spend it

South Carolina wants to replace aging school buses. Colorado plans to electrify Denver’s bus system. And Washington wants electric ferryboats for Puget Sound. As part of a 2016 federal court settlement after Volkswagen admitted programming its diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests, the automaker agreed to pay $ 2.8 billion to states to be […]

30 AUG

Google and VMware are teaming up with a $2.8 billion startup to get an edge in the cloud wars with Amazon (VMW, GOOG, GOOGL, AMZN, MSFT)

Google Google may be losing to Amazon in the cloud wars, but the search giant has a not-so-secret weapon — and some brand-new partners — that could help it fight back. The weapon is something called Kubernetes, a software project that started out as a way for Google to manage its massive server infrastructure and has since become […]