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February 3, 2012 -- Non-profit research organization Media Matters for America has released statistics that illustrate how much media conglomerates spent on hiring firms to lobby SOPA and PIPA. In total, it is estimated that 28 different lobbying firms were hired to lobby Congress on SOPA and PIPA.

February 3, 2012 -- Kansas-based IT services provider High Touch announced on Friday it has acquired managed hosting provider UniComData and colocation provider Dallas Data Center, according to a report by The Wichita Business Journal. The terms of both transactions were not disclosed. The move follows last month's acquisition of web development firm NewBase.

February 3, 2012 -- Web hosting provider iomart has asked the UK government to enforce the purchase of software products that protect children for public sector organizations responsible for childcare.iomart suggests that organizations implement software products that have been awarded the BSI Kitemark for Child Online Saftey, which its web security software Netintelligence has received, and is the "first and only such software" to do so.