Google's Nest Labs Unveils Web Store, New Developer Tools
- Company expands technology to get more gadgets connected
- Online marketplace brings together different products
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Google Inc.’s Nest Labs is opening up a key technology to other manufacturers of home-automation gadgets, seeking to keep its digital thermostats and other products at the center of the connected home.
Nest is expanding Weave, its software for devices to communicate with one another, to developers -- instead of limiting the technology to its own products. By doing so, more products can work together to control lights, heating, cooling, security and other things in homes. General Electric Co. and Procter & Gamble Co. will be partners in the effort, Nest said in a blog post Thursday. Nest Weave and its related services will be available in 2016.