Control4, SnapAV & OvrC at CEDIA: In Pursuit of Smart-Home Scale
Newly merged Control4, SnapAV plan to scale the fragmented home-automation and professional-installation market. Execs John Heyman, Charlie Kindel…
News September 18
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Vivint Smart Home to Go Public via Reverse Merger Valuing Co. at $5.6 Billion
Vivint Smart Home to be merged into SoftBank-backed Mosaic (NYSE: MOSC), a specialty acquisition corp. that will take…
News September 16
Why Bravas’ National Ambitions Just Might Work
CE pros might have been too quick to judge the recent Bravas news harshly, as the company seems…
News September 10
Sonance to Acquire James Loudspeaker
Sonance and James Loudspeaker expect the deal to close before the end of the year and will continue…
News September 6
Another Big Industry Roll-up: Bravas Gets $75M Investment to Merge 15 Top Smart-Home Integrators
Hoping to buck an industry streak of failed smart-home roll-ups, Bravas merges 15 top home-technology integration firms with…
Briefs August 27
SnapAV, Control4 Merger Complete
SnapAV's $680M acquisition of Control4 is finalized with 99% shareholder approval. New mega-company remains focused on professional install…
News August 1
SnapAV Acquires West Coast Distributor Custom Plus, Adds 12V to Portfolio
Leading home-technology provider SnapAV acquires Custom Plus Distributing, adding five branches in Pacific Northwest and California, plus a…
News July 17
RIP HAI, Home Automation Icon: CE Pro Wouldn’t Exist Without You
How Home Automation Inc. (HAI), now discontinued by Leviton, was responsible for the existence of CE Pro. Plus,…
News July 16
Ezlo Acquires Centralite Systems, Adding ZigBee to Z-Wave Home-Automation Portfolio
Centralite is Ezlo's third smart-home acquisition in a year, after smart-home platform developer MiOS (Vera) and Z-Wave device…
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