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Google has admitted that releasing Google Glass early may have been a mistake...
Nest founder and CEO Tony Fadell, who is now leading the continued development of Google Glass, has implied that releasing the initial "explorer edition" of the product to the public was a mistake,...
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Meet the big shots at Alphabet, the new Google company
Google announced on Monday that it was splitting itself apart and creating a new holding company, Alphabet, to contain all the pieces.Google's core businesses — search, ads, Android, YouTube, maps, and...
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It looks like Google's Nest has a new thermostat coming (GOOG)
Google's Nest Labs has a mysterious new wireless product in the pipeline which could be a new thermostat, according to recent regulatory filings.The company revealed in filings with the FCC on Thursday...
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The man who helped create the iPod reveals the moment he and his wife decided...
Tony Fadell, the primary creator of the iPod who now works at Google-owned hardware company Nest, has explained in a new interview with The Guardian why he and his wife chose to leave Apple.Fadell was...
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Steve Jobs was thinking about an Apple Car in 2008
Steve Jobs was entertaining the idea of an Apple car at least as far back as 2008. In an interview with Bloomberg, Tony Fadell, a former senior vice president at the company, said that he and Jobs had...
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Google's parent company is tightening the purse strings on moonshot projects...
The CEO of one of Alphabet's subsidiary companies just showed how serious Larry Page was when he said blowing up Google's corporate structure would make it more "more accountable" for how it spends its...
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Nest leader Tony Fadell on $555 million Dropcam buy: 'A lot of the employees...
The leader of Nest, the smart-home company Google bought for $3.2 billion in January 2014, expressed regrets about buying smart-home camera company Dropcam for $555 million later that year.In an...
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We're seeing the first signs of a big risk in Google's Alphabet...
A handful of recent reports highlight the importance — and in some cases weakness — of one of the big ideas behind Alphabet's operating structure.When Larry Page explained the reorganization of...
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Nest, the troubled company Google bought for $3.2 billion, could soon face a...
It's been a bad week for Nest, the Alphabet-owned home-appliances company that was the subject of a brutal profile in The Information and whose CEO, Tony Fadell, was criticized in a blog post by one of...
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Nest CEO Tony Fadell just sort of apologized to Googlers: 'Nest isn’t...
After a series of articles exposed problems at Nest, the smart-home device company that Google bought for $3.2 billion in 2013, CEO Tony Fadell gave a pep talk at Google's all hands internal company...
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Nest CEO Tony Fadell is making an electric go-kart for kids that parents can...
Tony Fadell is a pretty big name in the tech world.He's the current CEO of Google-owned Nest, which makes "smart" thermostats and smoke detectors, and he was also a key player at Apple, having helped...
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Nest CEO Tony Fadell is stepping down (GOOG)
Tony Fadell is out as CEO of Nest, the smart-home company Google bought for $3.2 billion in 2014, after facing stinging criticism about his management style and the company's track record in recent...
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Meet Nest's new CEO (GOOG, GOOGL)
Tony Fadell, the high profile and controversial CEO of Nest is stepping down.In his place, Nest, which is owned by Google parent company Alphabet, announced that it has hired Marwan Fawaz. Compared to...
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Nest's new CEO lives in Denver and will commute to the Palo Alto headquarters...
Nest named Marwan Fawaz as its new CEO on Friday, after Tony Fadell announced that he was stepping down.Fawaz is a cable-industry veteran who is not nearly as well-known of a name in Silicon Valley as...
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Google's new parent company Alphabet just passed its first big test (GOOG,...
Google's parent company Alphabet just had its first big executive shake-up, and it underscores one of the important tenets of its new operating structure: Alphabet is a bunch of independent companies...
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Former Nest CEO Tony Fadell says he's 'secretively' invested in more than 100...
Tony Fadell may no longer be the CEO of Nest, the company he founded that was folded into Google's Alphabet holding company, but he won't be idle.In addition to staying on the board at Alphabet, Fadell...
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The difference between working with Steve Jobs and Larry Page, according to...
Former Nest CEO Tony Fadell has the rare distinction of having worked closely with both Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Google cofounder Larry Page.Fadell worked with Jobs during his nearly 10 years at...
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Nest is definitely not for sale, according to the new CEO (GOOG, GOOGL)
Nest is definitely not for sale, according to its new CEO. "My only agenda for Nest is to scale and grow with innovative products," CEO Marwan Fawaz said in a letter to Nest employees obtained by Nilay...
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Nest has plenty of time to get it right, as the smart home market moves to...
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.No more manually adjusting your thermostat to save money and energy.Nest, the smart...
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A Brooklyn startup that's armed with $40 million is growing real leather in a...
You don't want to think about how your favorite leather jacket, shoes or watch strap were made.But the process — from the time it takes to farm an animal, ship it to a slaughter facility, prepare and...
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