M&A, Strategies, Alliances Molex has joined the EnOcean Alliance, announcing that it will be integrating EnOcean’s energy harvesting wireless protocol into its Transcend Network Connected Lighting System. Trouble at Nest seems to be continuing, with its director of hardware design and engineering, and a senior engineering manager apparently leaving the company. Wink talks about how it was sold to Flex (Flextronics), following Quirky’s bankruptcy, essentially as a debt write-off to the smart home hub’s manufacturer. Software Microsoft has open-sourced its Xamarin application development platform, after acquiring it in March. It’s the latest in a string of announcements meant to curry favor with the open source community, including bringing the bash command line into Windows 10, in partnership with Canonical. Altice’s…