{"id":3460,"date":"2016-05-06T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/ford-invests-182-2-million-in-cloud-based-software-company\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:17:26","slug":"ford-invests-182-2-million-in-cloud-based-software-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/ford-invests-182-2-million-in-cloud-based-software-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford invests $182.2 million in cloud-based software company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ford_pass\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA2LzEwL2ZvcmRfcGFzcy4xM2FkZC5wbmcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/09de4f12\/2a7\/ford_pass.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Ford+invests+%24182.2+million+in+cloud-based+software+company&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Fford-pivotal-investment%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F05%2Fford-pivotal-investment%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ford is quickly becoming a mobility company driven by big data, not just cars and trucks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/03\/ford-mustang-innovation\/\">Ford welded 2 Mustangs together to celebrate automotive innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ford Motor Company announced Thursday morning that it has invested\u00a0$182.2 million in a cloud-based software company called Pivotal. The move further solidifies Ford&#8217;s plans to be not just an automaker but also a mobility company that banks on big data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investment in Pivotal will help strengthen our ability to deliver these customer experiences at the speed of Silicon Valley,&#8221;  said Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO, &#8220;including continually expanding FordPass\u00a0\u2013 our digital, physical and personal mobility experience platform.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/05\/ford-pivotal-investment\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ford\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/transportation\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Transportation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cars<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/MteQExG1nRs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is quickly becoming a mobility company driven by big data, not just cars and trucks. SEE ALSO: Ford welded 2 Mustangs together to celebrate automotive innovation Ford Motor Company announced Thursday morning that it has invested\u00a0$182.2 million in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/06\/ford-invests-182-2-million-in-cloud-based-software-company\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[854,2651,725,907],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-cars","tag-ford","tag-tech","tag-transportation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}