Stripe Acquires Sales Tax Compliance Platform TaxJar

The San Francisco and Dublin based payments infrastructure company Stripe recently announced its acquisition of sales tax compliance platform TaxJar. Stripe, a leading provider of e-commerce payment solutions such as Stripe Connect, Stripe Payments, and Stripe Billing, is looking to expand its suite of tax tools for commerce platforms that currently run on Stripe.

Cisco sees smart buildings as key to ‘democratizing enterprise IoT’

Cisco characterizes Power-over-Ethernet as a “fourth utility” in smart buildings In a new blog post, Cisco’s Anoop Vetteth, vice president of product management for Enterprise Switching and Software Solutions, examined the role of connected buildings as providing “a fourth utility” that, when combined with internet of things solutions, can make enterprise facilities better for workers,…