{"id":11013,"date":"2014-01-13T22:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T06:51:46","slug":"google-to-acquire-nest-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/01\/13\/google-to-acquire-nest-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to acquire Nest Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google to acquire Nest Labs as revealed in their <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.google.com\/releases\/2014\/0113.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA \u2013 JANUARY 13, 2014 \u2014 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"google_plus_nest\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/google_plus_nest.png\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, there&#8217;s already a company named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nestleusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nestl\u00e9<\/a>. Probably you&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nestle.com\/Brands\/AllBrands\/Kit-Kat\" target=\"_blank\">heard of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/nest.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/nest-google-and-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nest Labs blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Will Nest customer data be shared with Google?<\/strong><br \/>\nOur privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest\u2019s products and services. We\u2019ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Gruber asked a good question regarding Google&#8217;s acquisition of Nest Labs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does Google acquiring Nest change Apple\u2019s mind about <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/product\/HA895LL\/A\/nest-learning-thermostat-2nd-generation?find=nest\" target=\"_blank\">selling Nest products in Apple Stores<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nest Thermostat at Apple Store\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Nest-Thermostat-at-Apple-Store.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For sure this would be an interesting turn of event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to acquire Nest Labs as revealed in their press release earlier today. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA \u2013 JANUARY 13, 2014 \u2014 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash. Oh wait, there&#8217;s already a company named Nestl\u00e9. Probably you&#8217;ve heard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/01\/13\/google-to-acquire-nest-labs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google to acquire Nest Labs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[381,1296,2135,2136,936],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-nest","tag-nest-labs","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2RD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}