Amazon acquires smart home company Ring

andrekweku (54)in #technology • 8 years ago (edited)

Amazon has reportedly acquired smart home company Ring for more than $1 billion, according to Reuters. Ring is best known for selling its connected doorbells, security cameras, and floodlights, while Amazon introduced its own line of smart home solutions last fall with the Amazon Cloud Cam and Amazon Key.

“Ring is committed to our mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods by providing effective yet affordable home security tools to our neighbors that make a positive impact on our homes, our communities, and the world,” a Ring spokesperson said in a statement. “We’ll be able to achieve even more by partnering with an inventive, customer-centric company like Amazon.”

Like many of Amazon’s previous acquisitions, Ring is expected to continue to operate under its own branding and integrate product features into core Amazon products — just as Whole Foods has begun selling 365-branded products on Amazon’s Prime delivery service, while Twitch and Audible run independently from Amazon.com.

Amazon has previously shown interest in Ring last year when it invested in the smart home company via its Alexa Fund. This is also Amazon’s second smart home acquisition three months; in December, the company acquired Blink, another smart doorbell company.

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