O n Monday, Google bought Nest—a maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors—for the princely sum of $3.2 billion. Much of the response so far has involved 1) sussing out the strategy ...

Place’s new line of smart alarms incorporates many of the best features of Google’s discontinued Protect, adding indoor air ...

Nest. Smoke alarms are supposed to provide peace of mind, but many produce only headaches and white-hot rage. Whether it’s cooking-related false alarms, 3 a.m. low-battery chirps, ...

My Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector had a false alarm at 1:30 a.m. As it turns out, they aren't that uncommon. Here's what you can do.

The answer is, of all things, a smoke detector. The $129 Nest Protect, launching this fall, is a handsome white square with rounded corners and an op-arty sunflower pattern.

Google's Nest Labs is resuming sales and lowering the price of a high-tech smoke detector that was pulled from the market some two months ago after malfunctioning.

Nest halts sales, issues warning on smoke detector. Edward C. Baig. USA TODAY. Nest on Thursday halted sales of its Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm, citing a safety concern.

The Nest smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP The Google-owned Nest Labs has halted sales of its smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, the company announced on its website.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google's (GOOG) Nest Labs is resuming sales and lowering the price of a high-tech smoke detector that was pulled from the market after malfunctioning. The new price for the ...

The Nest Protect alarm connects to other Nest Protects in your house using its own Wi-Fi mesh network, so if the basement smoke alarm goes off, all the smoke alarms go off, even if they’re not ...

Nest is halting sales of its Nest Protect fire alarm and smoke detector, citing a problem with the hand-waving feature that could delay an alarm in case. Toggle search box Toggle navigation.

Google acquires digital thermostat and smoke detector maker Nest for $3.2B. by John Cook on January 13, 2014 at 1:14 pm January 13, 2014 at 1:55 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.