M&A, Strategies, Alliances The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) have merged and become the AirFuel Alliance, following the June announcement of a closer working relationship to develop wireless charging. Intel has unveiled 3 new Quark SoCs, two microcontrollers, and more cloud software to fill out its IoT portfolio – in the week before ARM announces its own initiative at its annual developer conference. 1248 is launching its DevicePilot PaaS at ARM’s TechCon event. The service will run asset management and sensor network systems on behalf of business customers. Swisscom has picked Telit’s IoT Platform to form the backbone of its new IoT services business. Mysterious electric car startup Faraday Future is apparently building a…