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Activision Blizzard has announced that they are buying out King Digital for $5.9 billion. King Digital is known for the popular mobile game, “Candy Crush Saga.” Activision Blizzard is publisher of popular games such as World of Warcraft, Destiny, Guitar Hero, Skylanders, and Call of Duty. Activision has a weakness in the mobile market but by buying King Digital, it may have a plan to change this. Read more >>

Cisco announced that they have bought Lancope for $453m in order to boost their cyber-security threat defense capabilities. Cisco is planning to deliver solutions across an extended network that they are calling it the Security Everywhere. This will help Cisco’s offerings portfolio as many businesses plan to become more digitized in the upcoming 5 years. They have approximated that 50 billion devices will go online in this time period. With this being said, there is a high possibility that cyber attackers will have a way in. This is where an aspect of the Security Everywhere will come into play. Read more >>

Huawei is becoming one of the world’s largest player in the mobile market in China. China is now bigger than the U.S. in the mobile market. During the third quarter of this year 2015, Huawei has made huge leaps overtaking Xiaomi, the forming leading smartphone vendor in that nation. Read more >>

Apple announced that they are starting two new programs aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of its manufacturing partners. This program is so effective that it will be able to prevent over 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution between 2015 and 2020. The 20 million metric tons are equivalent to taking 4 million passenger vehicles off the roads for one year. Read more >>

BlackBerry Limited announced that it is acquiring Good Technology for $425 million in cash in order to fulfill BlackBerry’s strategy of giving its customers the most complete, end-to-end solution that is able to secure the mobile enterprise. Good Technology is known for helping big corporations and governments keep tabs on non-BlackBerry platforms such as Apple’s iOS. Good Technology boasts 6,300 customers and employs 16,000 Good Dynamics developers. Read more >>