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Podcast: Two big smart home deals explained

December 8, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

The end of the year is a busy time for M&A as companies rush to get deals done before the start of a new tax year, and this week the smart home sector saw Assa Abloy sell its Yale and August smart lock and some other brands to Fortune Brands for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, ARM, Assa Abloy, August, Fortune Brands, ge, google, Kwiskset, Matter, NRG Energy, Phlux, Reach, samsung, Silicon Labs, Swarm, vivint

IoT news of the week for Nov. 11, 2022

November 11, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Alexa better get to work: Brace yourselves, Alexa owners. Amazon is looking at cost-cutting, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, and Alexa looks like a target. The WSJ reports that the business unit has a reported loss of $5 billion a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Avery Dennison, buttons, Cognitive Systems, Home Assistant, Honeywell, MaxLinear, Philips Hue, smart lights, Thread, vivint, water sensor, WiFi sensing

Podcast: Arduino Opta adds a little IT to the OT

November 10, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

This week's show kicks off with a discussion of the lawsuit between Arm and Qualcomm amid accusations that Arm is changing its licensing model. We cover what has been said, and what it might mean for the IoT before heading into some industrial news. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Apana, Apple, Arduino Opta, ARM, Eufy, LoRaWAN, Marvell, Matter, Nanoleaf, Qualcomm, Silicon Labs, vivint

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: Smart screws and massive IoT

May 12, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

This week's show was recorded a few hours before the annual Google I/O event so we didn't discuss the new Pixel Watch, but we do discuss Google's thoughts on the Matter smart home standard from an article in The Verge, which Kevin also tied to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, augury, google, Imagimob, InfluxData, Inmarsat, LoRa Alliance, Matter, Seebo, SmartThings, sonos, vivint

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