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Karma buys Airbiquity assets: Southern California-based electrified luxury carmaker Karma Automotive has acquired the technology assets and intellectual property of Seattle-based Airbiquity, a software company that develops and engineers automotive telematics technology and cloud services. Airbiquity has developed automotive commercial software with investors that include Toyota Motor Co. and Denso. Karma has also hired key technical employees and assumed the software company's significant OEM contracts. "Their design maturity will help codify our strategies for software-defined and continuously connected vehicles," says Karma President Marques McCammon... Hyundai Motor Group won the most overall awards this year - 16 awards across its three brands: Genesis, Hyundai and Kia. Mazda earned the most Top Safety Pick+ awards of any individual brand with five. Audi had the most awards - four - for the plug-in vehicles that made the rankings. Hyundai Motor Group tied Audi at the corporate..

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