M&A, Strategies, Alliances Particle, formerly Spark, has partnered with Microsoft to use Azure to provide the cloud infrastructure behind its IoT development hardware and chips – as part of a complete IoT platform. Libelium joins the LoRa Alliance, and Xilinx joins the Industrial Internet Consortium. IBM and Pivotal have joined the AllSeen Alliance, the group that promotes and develops the Qualcomm-invented AllJoyn device discovery and control framework. Chip maker Renesas has teamed up with Arrow Electronics, Bug Labs and NimbeLink to provide the IoT Enabler Kit demonstration platform, for testing and prototyping. Arkessa joins Telefonica’s M2M Global Partner Program, one of the first to be announced. Korea Telecom and Nokia Networks have made good on their MoU and established an…