M&A, Strategies, Alliances Qualcomm and Korea Telecom have announced a joint project to build LTE-based IoT gateways for use in ATMs. The LoRa Alliance has launched its LoRaWAN certification program, and that it now has over 130 members. Version 1.1 of the spec has now added roaming functionality and support for new unlicensed spectrum in Asia. The Thread Group has begun its product certification program, with Freescale claiming to provide its hardware and stack to over half of the first 30 applicants. Osram has also joined the board of directors. Tele2 and Hexaware have partnered on a 150,000 3-year M2M deal, which will connect asset finance and leasing monitoring devices. Wirepas and its Pino mesh networking protocol have joined the…