| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.06.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 6/25/2016 | Twitter bought Magic Pony; Pinterest acquired tote; Red Hat purchased 3scale
Twitter acquired Magic Pony, a company that uses machine learning to enhance visual processing. No financial terms of the deal have been disclosed.
Rob Bishop, Mag... |
| 23.06.2016 | Comcast and Alarm.com to acquire smart home company Icontrol | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Comcast and security company Alarm.com have enter... |
| 23.06.2016 | Comcast and Alarm.com to acquire smart home company Icontrol | Comcast and security company Alarm.com have entered into agreements to acquire and divvy up Icontrol, an 11-year-old Internet of Things and home security company founded in Palo Alto and now based in Austin, Texas.
Comcast previously invest... |
| 23.12.2015 |
2016 predictions for IoT and smart homes
| by CHRIS KLEIN — 23 Dec '15, 01:24pm in INSIDER |
| 10.03.2015 | Piper continues smart home innovation with the introduction of Piper nv | Piper nv boasts 180-degree night vision, the widest field of view on the market, and advanced camera resolution
London, 10th March 2015 - Icontrol Networks, a leader in connected home technology and innovation, today announces general avail... |
| 15.08.2014 | Vacationers, Let Your Smart Home House-Sit Itself | ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.
Three years ago, a pipe burst in Alex Hawkinson’s family vacation home when he was away.
“We found it totally destroyed by moisture,” he told me in ... |
| 11.06.2014 | Openness Is Overrated: Honeywell And Vivint’s New Smart Home Platforms | ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.
Honeywell, the 125-year-old company known for home appliances, and Vivint, the former 90s-era Apex Alarm company, both just unveiled two new devices... |
| 09.04.2014 | Smart-home veteran iControl buys security device Piper to let you play Big Brother | While “smart home” companies such as Nest and SmartThings have been making all the headlines lately, industry veteran iControl Networks is scooping up a company to add to its Big Brother-like arsenal of connected home offerings.
iControl an... |
| 09.04.2014 | Smart-home veteran iControl buys security device Piper to let you play Big Brother | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While “smart home” companies such as Nest and Sma... |
| 08.04.2014 | iControl Networks Acquires Blacksumac, The Company Behind The Piper Home Monitoring Device | Earlier this year, Google ushered in consolidation of the home automation and monitoring space with its $3.2 billion acquisition of Tony Fadell’s Nest. Today, iControl Networks followed that trend with its purchase of Blacksumac, which make... |
| 10.02.2014 | 10 Cool Things A Pebble Smartwatch Can Do | The Pebble smartwatch is growing up. A year after it started shipping to Kickstarter backers, the startup officially cut the ribbon on Pebble’s very own app store last week. With this, Pebblers get a single resource covering the latest watc... |
| 27.03.2013 | Time Warner Rolls Out IntelligentHome, Developed in Austin By iControl | Time Warner Cable launched its IntelligentHome, a security and home management system, this week in Austin and San Antonio.
And the team developing the project in Austin was formerly uControl, which merged with iControl in November of 2010.... |
| 03.05.2012 | New Finds At TNW Shows Europe Is Nailing It | European startup conference The Next Web (and now competing blog, hello guys), which took place in Amsterdam last week, was covered in full by seven TNW bloggers who wrote over 30 posts about all major announcements, speeches and competitio... |
| 28.02.2012 | Charles River Ventures Raises $375 Million For Its 15th Fund | Veteran VC firm Charles River Ventures is announcing its 15th fund today, increasing its fund size from $325 million in its last raise to $375 million in its latest “heavily oversubscribed” round.
Charles River Ventures partner George Zacha... |
| 20.06.2011 | iControl Lands Over $50 Million For Broadband Home Management Software | iControl Networks, a provider of broadband home management software solutions, this morning announced that it has raised over $50 million in Series D funding, bringing total investment in the company to more than $100 million.
The round was... |
| 20.06.2011 | iControl Networks Closes $50M Series D Funding | iControl Networks, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of broadband home management solutions, closed an over $50m Series D funding.
The round brings the total amount raised by the company to date to more than $100m,
Investors include Cisco, Com... |
| 04.11.2010 | Kleiner Perkins And CRV-Backed iControl Now Controls uControl As Home Automation Market Consolidates | The home automation market is consolidating, as evidenced by a the merger today of iControl and UControl. Both offer home monitoring, security, and energy management products accessible through the Internet and mobile phones. For instance, ... |
| 05.04.2010 | John Doerr: The Next Big Thing | This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on... |
| 10.11.2009 | iControl links home security and energy efficiency | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
To capitalize on consumer interest in home securi... |
| 10.11.2009 | iControl links home security and energy efficiency | To capitalize on consumer interest in home security, startup iControl has launched an energy management platform for the mass market that ties smart appliances, thermostats and plugs to motion-activated lights, security cameras and door loc... |
| 29.07.2009 | Intel Capital grows commitment to cleantech with five new investments | Intel Capital is no stranger to the clean technology space, but today, it took its participation to the next level with five investments in green companies, amounting to $10 million in all. In the mix, it brought one new portfolio company, ... |
| 29.07.2009 | Intel Capital grows commitment to cleantech with five new investments | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Intel Capital is no stranger to the clean technol... |
| 22.07.2009 | iControl locks in $23 million | Remote control system enables users to monitor the safety of their homes from iPhone and beyond
There seems to be an app for everything these days. Want to remotely monitor and control your house? “Well, there’s an app for that.”
iControl N... |
| 22.07.2009 | iControl raises $23M third round for broadband home management | iControl Networks, a Palo Alto-based startup, has closed a new round of funding that adds $23 million to bring the company’s total funding to more than $45 million. The company makes home security and energy control systems that are sold an... |
| 08.07.2009 | Control4 plugs into the smart grid with new $17.3M | Control4, maker of a universal remote control capable of adjusting any home appliances or electronics — from the television to the thermostat — has brought in $17.3 million to get the ball rolling on several smart grid initiatives.
These in... |
| 08.07.2009 | Control4 plugs into the smart grid with new $17.3M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Control4, maker of a universal remote control cap... |
| 27.05.2008 | Pelago and iControl first to receive iFunds for iPhone apps | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 10.12.2007 | Timex iControl review | How often have you hit the running trails and found that your iPod is really interested in Kenny G. No matter how many times you fumble for your iPod you keep coming back to “Eastside Jam” and “By the Time This Night Is Over.” Now, however,... |
| 03.01.2007 | 4HomeMedia, latest company to want to control your home | 4HomeMedia, a Sunnyvale start-up, is the latest company wanting to let people control every electronic gadget and system in their home remotely.
It is an elusive business, because some companies have tried it, and most have failed.
4HomeMed... |
| 26.04.2006 | Wednesday wrap-up: Wallop, World Bank VC & other web wampum | Updated
Microsoft Research’s Wallop — Microsoft has created a new social-networking spin-off called Wallop, to be run by Karl Jacob, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur (Dimension X, Keen.com and more recently anti-spam company Cloudmark)... |
| 16.02.2005 | iControl makes you the “Big Brother” | One new Silicon Valley company that catches our eye today is iControl, the latest to demo at DEMO. As its name suggests, it literally gives the user control over the whole home — including everything from video-recording to the thermostat —... |
