The IoT market is seeing vibrant activity. Google & Nest Labs In its second-largest acquisition ever, Google paid $3.2bn to buy Nest Labs, a maker of smart smoke alarms and thermostats for homes, back in January.
The big data market is seeing vibrant activity. Oracle bought marketing tech startup BlueKai for about $400m in February. BlueKai offers a data management system that allows marketers to personalise marketing campaigns and measure how well their campaigns reach certain types of people.