Google is absorbing parts of Nest, and that's a good thing

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Google is absorbing parts of Nest, and that's a good thing
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Google's Alphabet is shaking things up at Nest (http://mashable.com/category/nest/)... againFortune (http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-nest-developers-alphabet/) reports, and Mashable has confirmed, that the tech giant is moving several software developers back to Google. Nest will continue to make, sell and market its hardware, but those developers will **w work on Google's broader Internet of Things platforms.

SEE ALSO: Inside Home: Apple’s plan to finally give you a smarter house (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/inside-apple-home-strategy/)


The move isn't too surprising given what's been happening with Nest — and the broader category of smart-home devices — over the past year. Nest has been dogged by lots of bad press about former founder and CEO Tony Fadell and the company's inability to ship new products, which led to Fadell's departure (http://mashable.com/2016/06/03/tony-fadell-leaves-nest/) earlier this year. The same period has seen the rise of the Amazon Echo and its digital assistant, Alexa, which is rapidly developing into the leading smart-home platform. In response, Google an**unced its own "smart speaker," Home (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/google-home/), in May. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/google-nest-changes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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