M&A, Strategies, Alliances The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has approved v1.0 of its Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) device management specification, graduating it from candidate status. F-Secure has acquired Inverse Path, an industrial cybersecurity company that supplies software and consulting services to avionics, automotive, and industrial customers. Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations specialist, which will be added to Verizon’s IoT offerings – which the company said approached $1bn in 2016. Scintel has acquired Deep Blue, a machine-learning and analytics company best known for its Prophesy platform. No details are given, and Deep Blue was founded in 2012. Atos has acquired zData, a big data and consulting provider that Atos plans to add to its digital services offerings. No price was…