Google's reach expands into your home more via $3.2 billion Nest acquisition

◼ Nest gives Google some design knowhow as well as a lot of home energy data. Google's tentacles are spreading into your home even more. - ZDNet

For Google, Nest founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers will bring some more design knowhow to the search giant, which has a hardware side of the business via Motorola. Google will also be able to harness more data from individual homes as well as garner more data.

Consider the moving parts:

◼ Google has mobile access via your smartphones and various apps on multiple platforms.
◼ Google has multiple ways into your living room via Android and Chromecast, a streaming TV gadget, as well as tablets and PCs.
◼ The company had tried to monitor energy usage with utilities, but scrapped the plan in 2011.
◼ Google's Android will increasingly be in your car.
◼ And Google is working the robot market.

It remains to be seen how all of these efforts fit together, but it's clear that Google's tentacles are spreading.

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