The 12 Most Expensive Acquisitions Made by Google

9. Dropcam

Price –$555 million

Home surveillance company Dropcam was created in 2009 as its founders wanted to create a less expensive camera for video monitoring of homes or small businesses. In a few years, the service became quite popular as people wanted to keep an eye on their kids while away from home, monitor pets and so on via the live-streaming feature it offers.

In the summer of 2014, Dropcam announced that it was bought by Google’s Nest (we’ll get to it in a bit), a home automation company. The Dropcam and Dropcam Pro have since been followed by the Nest Cam.

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