M&A, Strategies, Alliances Truphone has acquired CoSwitched and its IoT Connectivity Management Platform, to add to Truphone’s global MNO business, which is turning its eye towards IoT customers. PTC is acquiring Kepware for $100m, an industrial software development company that supplies communications tools to industrial customers and factories. Thinfilm has won a $500k grant from the European Commission to develop an open source API platform for connected labelling on packaged goods. The TagItSmart project will see Thinfilm pair its NFC-enabled tags with technology from Evrythng, Siemens and Unilever. Industrial PC vendor Adlink is acquiring PrismTech for $16.6m, to add the Vortex computing platform to its hardware portfolio. Software Amazon has announced that its AWS IoT PaaS is in general release,…