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Nest Is Buying Dropcam for More Data on Homes

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Looks like all those rumors turned out to be true. Nest is acquiring video monitoring company Dropcam for $555 million as part of Nest’s push further into the home. Announced Friday...

Nest Recalls 440,000 Smoke Alarms

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NEW YORK (AP) — Government regulators on Wednesday said that they have approved Nest Labs' plans to fix a feature in its smoke alarms that could prevent them from sounding immediately. The U.S....

Google says it will buy Nest Labs for $3.2B

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Google says it will buy Nest Labs, maker of high-tech smoke alarms and thermostats, for $3.2B NEW YORK (AP) — Google will pay $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, which develops high-tech...
    






Nest Protect is a $129 Smoke Detector with Brain and Voice

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In the beginning there was Nest’s Learning Thermostat. Now, it has come up with the Protect Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector. What the first one did for home temperature, the latter does for fire...