Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO
Everyone's Favorite Robot Cleaning Company Financial Times : Amazon acquires Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Roomba robot vacuum Chan...
Google says it will invest $450M in smart home security company ADT, which will sell and install Nest smart home products, for a 6.6% stake
the fact that it already has so much of our data allows it to develop more accurate home security systems. Of course, that lets Google see even more of our lives. What is the endpoint of this surveill...
Google says it will invest $450M in smart home security company ADT, which will sell and install Nest smart home products, for a 6.6% stake
Google is investing $450 million in ADT to acquire a 6.6% stake in the Florida-headquartered firm that provides security and smart home solutions, the two said today.
Source: Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit but wanted to pay roughly half of the $2.1B that Google eventually agreed to pay
it has to be extremely valuable to Google. Of course, the acquisition can also affect that trust, if no lessons are learnt from Nest. https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : Google's braze...
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
Google is selling US restaurant review guide Zagat, which it bought for $151M in 2011, to restaurant review company The Infatuation for an undisclosed sum
The guidebook was once a go-to source for restaurant recommendations Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land : Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation Adnan Farooqui / Uberg...
Report: Apple hires Greg Duffy, the founder of Dropcam who sold it to Nest for $555M, likely to lead a “special project”
Kif Leswing / Business Insider :
Alphabet holds Calico, Fiber, Google, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, Life Sciences, Nest; Google contains YouTube, Android, search, ads, maps, apps
Google Absorbed Into New “Alphabet” Conglomerate Run By Larry Page & Sergey Brin — Google's been acquired.