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Google Buys Itself A Three Billion Dollar Nest

By Tom Wyrick on January 14, 2014 in Hardware, Other Gadgets

In a rather surprising move, Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion. Obviously, this is excellent news for Nest CEO, Tony Fadell, but what does it mean for current and future customers of the Nest thermostat or smoke detector, and why did Google deem it worth over four times as much as Instagram? According to Fadell’s […]

Michael Dell Buys His Own Company Back

By Mordechai Osdoby on September 12, 2013 in Computers, Hardware

It’s weird to think of now, but Dell Computer was crazy geeky once upon a time. Starting out in Michael Dell’s dorm room, his fledgling enterprise made him enough scratch that he could quit college and focus on computers full time. At one time seeing itself as the average consumer’s company of choice, Dell the […]

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