Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion

Tiger666 · 2014-01-13 13:23:06Z

Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion简介

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Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion

By Dan Primack January 13, 2014: 4:04 PM ET

Google acquiring smart home appliance company.

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FORTUNE -- Google (GOOG) has agreed to acquire Nest Labs, the trendy maker of smart home appliances like thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion.

The deal comes just weeks after reports that Nest was raising new venture capital funding to be led by DST Global, which apparently never happened (and possibly was never going to).

Nest was founded in 2010 by Tony Fadell, a former Apple (AAPL) executive known for his design work on the original iPod.

"This decision wasn't made on a whim – Google has been in the mix in some way or another for about three years of our almost four-year history," Fadell explains in a blog post. "In fact, my first meeting with Google as a Nester was before we'd launched. At the 2011 TED Conference, Erik Charlton and I huddled in a corner with Sergey Brin to show him a video and an early model of the Nest Learning Thermostat – he instantly got what we were doing and so did the rest of the Google team when we showed them... I know that joining Google will be an easy transition because we're partnering with a company that gets what we do and who we are at Nest –and wants us to stay that way."