Emerson is buying National Instruments for $8.2B: Industrials giant Emerson is buying test and measurement company National Instruments for $8.2 billion. Word of the deal surfaced a few weeks back with a few other companies bidding for NI. With this … [Read more...]
Podcast: Alexa and Qualcomm embrace ambient tech
This week's show kicks off with our discussion of several announcements from Amazon's Alexa Live developers' conference held Wednesday. Alexa is getting several features as part of the launch of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol that … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 8, 2021
NICE acquires the Nortek brand of home security gear: Italian home automation company NICE has acquired Nortek's security systems for $285 million. The deal adds to NICE's brands of smart home gear, which include 2GIG, Numera, IntelliVision, Linear, … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 13, 2021
Hologram gets $65M for IoT connectivity: Hologram is a seven-year-old company that provides cellular connectivity and management tools to IoT customers. The company just raised $65 million in a round led by Tiger Global. It brings the total funding … [Read more...]
What Biden’s giant executive order means for the IoT
On July 9, President Biden issued a mammoth executive orderĀ (EO) focused on increasing competition that included everything from bringing back net neutrality rules to asking the Food and Drug Administration to investigate cheaper pharmaceutical … [Read more...]