M&A, Strategies, Alliances The OIC has relaunched ad the Open Connectivity Foundation, with Qualcomm, Microsoft and Electrolux now joining the board and increasing its overlap with the AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn. The Bridge Alliance and the Global M2M Association have partnered to provide a joint Multi-Domestic Service offering in 77 markets, in the first alliance-to-alliance remote provisioning use case of an eUICC SIM. Private equity firm Apollo is buying Tyco spin-off ADT, paying $6.9bn (a 56% premium) for ADT and combining its operations with its recent $1.9bn Protection 1 buy to create a business with around $4.2bn in annual revenue. IBM is launching an blockchain-as-a-service offering as part of its IBM Cloud offering, and is donating 44,000 lines of code to…