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Cisco acquires SaaS enterprise IoT platform provider Jasper for $1.4b

By Duncan Riley Feb 3, 2016

Cisco Systems, Inc. has announced that they intend to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider Jasper Technologies, Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, plus additional retention-based…

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 3: Wargaming joins forces with Bitpay, Spells of Genesis beta, Blockstream raises $55m, Japanese VC invests in Kraken

By Kyt Dotson Feb 3, 2016

This week gamers get a boost from Wargaming as they’ll be able to buy their tanks, planes and warships in World of Tanks/Warplanes/Warships with bitcoin, thanks to a deal with BitPay. The blockchain-based tradable…

Eve Online’s spin-off game Dust 514 is shutting down after only three years

By Eric David Feb 3, 2016

Eve Online’s first-person shooter spin-off, Dust 514, will soon be no more, as developer CCP Games has announced that the game will be permanently shutting down at the end of May, barely three years after the…

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Google and Verizon are reportedly teaming up against Amazon

By Maria Deutscher Feb 3, 2016

For two underdogs in a market as competitive as the public cloud, joining forces is one of the only ways to push ahead. That’s how Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. reportedly ended up…

Tales of Symphonia is the latest in a string of horribly broken PC ports

By Eric David Feb 3, 2016

Apparently 13 years is not quite enough time to make a not-terrible PC port for a console game, as the recent Steam release for the 2003 Japanese RPG Tales of Symphonia has proven. Users have been complaining about a number of…