🍀Amazon acquires Ring’s smart doorbell business
Amazon has acquired Ring, the device maker best known for its smart doorbells.
The terms of the deal aren’t clear, but it’s expected that Amazon will keep the core Ring business intact while finding ways to integrate its work into the Amazon ecosystem.
Ring already supports Alexa voice control, so we’d expect more than just obvious tie-ins.
The Ring purchase should help Amazon’s overall hardware business, but it’s also a not-so-subtle attempt to counter Google’s Nest team. Nest has been gradually branching out, most recently introducing its Hello video doorbell.
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2018/02/27/amazon-acquires-ring/
Amazon to buy Ring, maker of Wi-Fi–connected doorbells – seattlepi.com