M&A, Strategies, Alliances GE has said that Quirky, the smart home startup it acquired in 2009, has damaged its reputation, after Quirky has filed for bankruptcy. GE is currently undergoing an extensive reorganization, which includes selling off its gigantic real estate portfolio. Software Microsoft has added predictive maintenance to its Azure IoT Suite platform. PrismTech has announced its Vortex 2.0 data sharing platform, adding the Vortex Fog suite to allow real-time data connectivity between distributed low-latency fog computing applications and the cloud-hosted applications. Apple has open-sourced its Swift programming language, under an Apache 2.0 license. Hardware Lattice Semiconductor has launched a new FPGA development platform, based on its iCE40 FPGA, which the company claims is 60% smaller than alternative MCUs,…