MakerBot + Stratasys = Mainstream to Industrial
Back on June 19, Stratasys ended weeks of speculation and announced that it was acquiring MakerBot, merging the business and DIY/maker markets for 3D printing. We all could see this coming, right? The only question was when and how and who. MakerBot was founded in...
Hey – Google Readers, listen up!
It's almost time to say goodbye to Google Reader, that oh-so-modern equivalent of a local, town newspaper. As you may know, it’s shutting down on July 1st, and when it goes, it’s taking your subscriptions with it! If you read this blog via Google Reader, you have a...
Hot guitar riffs & cool announcements from PTC Live
PTC has spent the last, well, decade redefining itself. For a long time, it was the feature-based modeling powerhouse in a direct-modeling CAD world. Then it decided CAD was passé and devoted itself to building a PLM platform. Most recently, PTC entered the brave new...
Trimble adds more automation to the job site
Have you ever wondered how a construction site works? It's much more complicated -- and way higher-tech -- than most people realize. Trimble has been on a mission over the last 5 years or so to bring technology to the job site, since that's often the part of the...
ESI Q1: buoyed by BRIC and OpenCFD
Still working to catch up on what happened while you were at PTC Live? Me too! Honestly, it would be so much simpler if everything just went on hold while we're these things, right?! Not gonna happen, so catch-up it is. In addition to 3D Systems trying to acquire...
3D Systems moves into metal, snaps up Phenix
Not surprisingly, while a lot of us were at PTC's Live Global user conference in Anaheim this week, everyone else was doing ... whatever they were doing. And that, it turns out was quite a bit. 3D Systems Acquires (Most of) Phenix Systems 3D Systems makes what are...
Couldn’t get to Vienna? Recap of SIMULIA conference
Picture this: we're in an ancient city of castles, cathedrals and really good cake, meeting to talk about advancements in cutting-edge technology: simulation. It's a little like the picture to the right, of St. Stephen's cathedral reflected in a modern office...
Exa’s Q1 is back on track
Exa Corporation just announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2014, which ended April 30, 2013. CEO Steve Remondi said that "revenue for the quarter was at the high end of our guidance, increasing 11%, or 14% on a constant currency basis, from a year ago....
AVEVA very happy with F13 results, has “a lot more in the tank”
CEOs lead interesting lives. In an interview with the CNBC Squawk Box team in the UK, AVEVA's CEO Richard Longdon was asked if the company's new Everything 3D (E3D) product was "CAD for smart people". Well, yes -- but the point of E3D is to make advanced design...
Earnings update, AEC edition — a mixed bag
This earnings season has been incredibly busy and I have fallen far, far behind in summarizing the highlights. To try to catch up a bit, I’ll be grouping these companies by general product category for you, since that’s so much more useful than chronologically by...