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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by Matt_Cutts on Friday May 30, 2014 @12:04AM (#7820215)
In this case, we started dissecting this particular spammy guest blog posting network in November of 2013, and Google didn't acquire of Nest until January of 2014. So Vivint was link spamming (and was caught by the webspam team for spamming) before Google even acquired Nest.
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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by rasz_pl on Friday May 30, 2014 @11:13PM (#7825123)
So in other words you got interested in Nest competition in the middle of Google-Nest acquisition negotiations?
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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by gregr401 on Friday May 30, 2014 @12:57AM (#7820346)
Unless details of when the due-diligence occurred for the purchase, this point is really moot. I hardly doubt your board decided to drop a cool 3.2B the night before the Nest announcement.
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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by skj on Friday May 30, 2014 @07:35AM (#7821197)
They certainly didn't tell the eng staff about it until then.
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