Event · Hardware

Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion (2014)

Nest made a connected thermostat, sold since 2011, and the Protect smoke alarm. Its founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, had worked on the iPod and iPhone at Apple. Google paid $3.2 billion in cash, and Nest kept its own brand under Fadell.

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January 13, 2014

Nest Labs acquisition

Event · Hardware · Concluded

sources · timeline 2010–2014

Interpretive reconstruction · Unification Early-2010s conventions: a dark top bar, flat white surfaces, solid red and blue buttons. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

January 13, 2014 Announcement · exact date [1]

What the sources say

Claim	Record	Confidence	Sources
Price	$3.2 billion in cash	3 · Secondary source	[1] secondary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

Google Is Buying Connected Device Company Nest For $3.2B In Cash — Matthew Panzarino — TechCrunch, January 13, 2014. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

Google's official announcement
Nest inside Alphabet (2015–2019 block)

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Nest” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion (2014)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/aquisicao-nest-2014/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: aquisicao-nest-2014 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026