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Nest Breaks Silence with Release of a Diverse Home Security Product Range

In April 2016, Memoori published an article highlighting that the long awaited security product range from Nest, still showed no signs of emerging. After a relatively quiet 18 months from Nest, on the security front at least, Google’s smart home acquisition finally announces Nest Secure. Back then, we covered reports about a “not-so-happy corporate atmosphere,” which centered around Nest’s co-founder, Tony Fadell – co-inventor of the original iPod – and many were suggesting the firm’s internal struggles were to blame for its less than spectacular record since Google’s acquisition. “Perhaps this clash of egos spilling into the public domain has made pundits overly critical of a company just two year after an acquisition and major overhaul. However, the fact is that Fadell will continue to be under pressure until Nest, under his command, produces real results,” we foretold. And reports that suggested “Google had become impatient with Fadell and his staff’s failure to create a […]

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