M&A, Strategies, Alliances ON Semiconductor has joined the Thread Group. Libelium’s open hardware division Cooking Hacks has overhauled its website to provide 70 new tutorials, which the company hopes will be very useful for educational and learning syllabuses. After the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) and Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) completed their merger, the Wireless Power Consortium is still holding out with its Qi standard, ignoring calls from the newly-merged body to join them. Samsung and Telefonica are partnering on a R&D project, to link Samsung devices and Telefonica’s Thinking Things sensor platform. Mojix has acquired TierConnect and its subsidiary CodeRoad, the companies behind ViZix, and IoT platform built to provide software solutions and analytics. Mojix says the buy will…