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News: Buyout brings together makers of two of the world's most popular games.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was announced on monday at MWC, but that's been an old story, the latest story is that Chinese device maker Goophone copied Samsung's design (shamelessly) and introduced its cloned version Goophone S5.

Taiwanese display driver and semiconductor product maker, Himax Technologies, has teamed up with Lumus, an Augmented Reality glasses maker, to develop smart glasses. Lumus plans to use its ultra-thin optics enabled wearable display and combine it with Himax's LCOS technology, which provides high level of brightness required for see-through Augmented Reality, to create wearable technology that can be used in daily life.

When it comes to commercial cooling in Ottawa, there is nothing worse than having the air conditioning unit in your business go out on a sweltering mid-summer day. When your cooling system fails, you know that it means your business is going to be slow as well, because patrons would prefer to do business or eat their lunch in a place that is nice and cool.

The maker of mobile social games Family Farm and Happy Acres is selling its gaming division DianDian Interactive to Chinese construction firm Zhongji for $960m.

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.