Some interesting fact:

NEM vs IOTA:

NEM can do what IOTA can do (but in another way). Connect hundreds of thousands devices (IOT) and let them communicate. All you need is a private chain. The private chain can interact with the public chain (if needed). In this way you can also handle thousands of transactions per second, like IOTA can do.

For me as an investor this is/was very interesting news because i think the internet of things is one of the most promising future developments. NEM can compete in this area! I also found this project (ioNEM, https://blog.nem.io/ionem/)