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Podcast: The FTC eyes Amazon’s iRobot buy

September 22, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Amazon's decision to purchase the maker of Roomba vacuum cleaners for $1.7 billion. The agency this week asked Amazon and iRobot for more information about the deal, so Kevin and I took a moment to explain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Blues Wireless, FTC, Helium, Hitachi Vantara, Infineon, irobot, LoRa, MachineQ, nvidia, Signify, Silicon Labs, State Farm, T-mobile, Tile, vivint

Podcast: Is Kickstarter still relevant for smart devices?

September 1, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 7 Comments

This week we start off talking about the Federal Trade Commission suing a data broker for sharing sensitive location data. It's a topic we're following closely, in part because location information can't be anonymized even when companies promise that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Adrich, adt, Eve, FTC, Home Connectivity Alliance, Hue, Infineon, Kickstarter, Silicon Labs, Tado, Telit, Uber, Woosh, Works With

Can the FTC restore our faith in technology?

August 16, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

This post originally ran on Friday, August 12 in my weekly newsletter.  After reading the Tesla stories this week that prompted Kevin's story above, I tried to talk to my child about our upcoming trip to visit some colleges. In preparation for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, data brokers, FTC, google, privacy

IoT news of the week for Jan. 21, 2022

January 24, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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The FTC and the DOJ issue request for comment on the FTC's merger guidelines: This is a huge story for the tech industry because it's seen as a response to overly permissive M&A over the last decade, which has led to tech companies having … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: adt, Ambient.ai, Artly, DoJ, Ford, FTC, IRS, Matter, Nanoleaf, Parallel Systems, Xiaomi

Podcast: Get ready for an active FTC and energy storing appliances

January 20, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

The big story this week in IoT was the joint venture between Ford and ADT to add smart home security to cars through an in-vehicle security system. Then we discuss the FTC and Department of Justice reconsidering how they evaluate mergers. We also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: adt, amazon alexa, Atmosic, Department of Justice, Ford, FTC, GE Applainces, google, Hologram, Kalais Nair, Misty Robotics, MIT, Plentify, Rightpoint, SpinDance, Tado, Wi-Fi

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