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Creative Strategies President Carolina Milanesi joins Emily Chang to discuss Amazon’s continued push into internet-connected home devices and robotics with its purchase of IRobot, maker of the Roomba vacuum, for $1.65 billion.

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  1. will salazar ramirez

    August 5, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    CHICLAYO PERU ???????? ???? ????

  2. S O

    August 5, 2022 at 11:38 pm

    Roomba maps your house and sends the info to the company.

  3. Trag 1804

    August 5, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    Time bust this monopoly

  4. Normalized Audio

    August 5, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    SWAT team has a map of your house before they go in. Amazon will kill all your pets. They know where you sleep.

  5. Placeholder

    August 5, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    That’s way too cheap I’d be pissed if I owned shares

  6. Free Spirit

    August 6, 2022 at 12:04 am

    They are buying technology to get surveillance and information from a greater number of people. Amazon prime, Ring cameras, Mappjng technology and perhaps listening robotic vacuums. This the problem with big companies they monopolise the market

  7. espur

    August 6, 2022 at 1:16 am

    Smart move by Amazon. Now, Amazon get to map your house and show product ads what you are missing in your house.

  8. in Valhalla神様

    August 6, 2022 at 2:36 am

    I can see Amazon buying Simply Safe and adding on some features to have their own version of Nest

  9. Aussie As

    August 6, 2022 at 5:37 am

    You yanks are fully brainwashed. Hahaha

  10. Vikash Kumar

    August 7, 2022 at 6:21 am

    Get All Information About Amazon Announced to Acquire iRbobot in Short Summary ????????????

  11. SkidMarks

    August 7, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    Hope they dump more money into Terra or lawn mowing robot equivalent

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