M&A, Strategies, Alliances Honeywell’s planned acquisition of JDA Software has been challenged by a counter offer from Blackstone group, which will see Blackstone invest $570m into JDA. Rumors are circulating that Lyft is trying to sell itself, but has failed to convince Apple, Amazon, Google, Uber, and GM (a $500m investor). Tele2 has acquired Kombridge, a specialist in security services, device management, and application management for IoT apps and services. No price was given. VMware has announced a string of IoT partnerships with Dell, PTC, Deloitte, Intwine, Bayshore, PTC and V5. Actility has joined Cisco’s Solution Partner Program, with its LoRa and LPWAN expertise. Also, Cisco is back to using the IoE term, much to our dismay. D-Link and Silicon…