M&A, Strategies, Alliances The prpl Alliance and the IoT Security Foundation have announced a collaboration to promote ‘security by design.’ KPMG and Microsoft have signed a partnership to combine their technologies to target large and medium-sized Indian enterprise customers, with automation and analytics offerings. Uber has acquired Geometric Intelligence, an AI software specialist focused on using small data sets for object recognition, to form a new AI lab in its San Francisco HQ. In wake of the AllSeen-OCF merger, 68 new members of the OCF have been announced. Alphabet is carrying out discussions with Whole Foods, Domino’s, and Starbucks, for its Wing Marketplace drone delivery service, to place food orders inside a Google portal. Gimbal has been acquired by The…