{"id":40031,"date":"2014-01-14T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40031"},"modified":"2014-01-14T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:06:12","slug":"google-acquires-nest-for-3-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/google-acquires-nest-for-3-2-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Acquires Nest For $3.2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geek Beat &#8211; Just when you thought the end of CES meant you had a bit of breathing room, Google drops a bombshell on the tech community. They\u2019ve come to an agreement to acquire Nest, of elegant thermostat fame. They\u2019re paying 3.2 billion USD in cash for the acquisition of Nest Labs Inc, which will join the Google family but will retain its own corporate brand identity.<\/p>\n<p>From the press release, Larry Page, CEO of Google, said: \u201cNest\u2019s founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family. They\u2019re already delivering amazing products you can buy right now\u2013thermostats that save energy and smoke\/CO alarms that can help keep your family safe. We are excited to bring great experiences to more homes in more countries and fulfill their dreams!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekbeat.tv\/google-acquires-nest-for-3-2-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek Beat &#8211; Just when you thought the end of CES meant you had a bit of breathing room, Google drops a bombshell on the tech community. They\u2019ve come to an agreement to acquire Nest, of elegant thermostat fame. They\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40032,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40031\/revisions\/40032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}