M&A, Strategies, Alliances UIEvolution has acquired Surroud.io, and is merging the two companies to create Xevo, a company that will focus on advanced UI’s and software for automotive applications. Thundersoft has acquired Rightware, a provider of connected car software, for $68m, whose flagship Kanzi product is expected to power over 25m cars by 2022. The IEEE, AIOTI, oneM2M, and W3C standards bodies have published a whitepaper outlining semantic interoperability in the IoT. Syncsort has announced the completion of its acquisition of Trillium. relayr has acquired Proximetry, adding the IoT software company to its IoT platform and services portfolio, aimed at the IIoT. Laws and Regulation The UK government has proposed laws that would require all drones to mandate testing of…