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Samsung wants to make the smart home smarter — if your home’s a Samsung home, that is. During its CES 2024 keynote in Las Vegas tonight, the company announced a…

Samsung’s new smart home features include household maps with ‘AI characters’

Or maybe it’s a smart home hub with wireless charging built in. Either way, this is the SmartThings Station, which debuted on stage at CES this afternoon. The hub is…

Samsung’s new wireless charger has a smart home hub built-in

Alongside its other CES announcements, at Samsung’s Unpacked event today the company introduced its new Galaxy SmartTag Bluetooth locator, a lost item beacon for Samsung owners and a competitor with…

Samsung unveils its newest Tile competitor, the Galaxy SmartTag

Samsung’s approach to the smart home has been — “uneven” seems like a nice way of putting it. None of this has really been helped along by the fact that…

Samsung releases a trio of smart home products

A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform, a security researcher found.…

Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys

Samsung, naturally, would never be content to launch a regular old Tile competitor. The company just doesn’t roll like that. While the basic foundation of the SmartThings Tracker is similar…

Samsung launches an LTE-enabled Tile competitor

Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting some product firepower as it dives into cryptocurrency and weighs platform aspirations. Investor Josh Elman will join Robinhood as its VP of product…

Robinhood hires Josh Elman as VP of product, who’ll stay at Greylock

No surprise, Samsung is making the connected home a big focus of its annual Developer Conference this week in San Francisco. DJ Koh, the company’s head of Mobile Communications took…

Bixby 2.0 takes center stage at Samsung’s Developer Conference

Samsung and SmartThings are buddying up to introduce Samsung’s latest line of Smart TVs, complete with SmartThings platform integration so folks can use their TVs as an interface to control…

SmartThings And Samsung Team Up To Make Your TV A Smart Home Hub

New home automation system SmartThings home monitoring kit is now available from Amazon, Best Buy and Sears. The home monitoring kit’s hub and sensors were previously available to purchase individually on…

SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit Launches In Amazon, Best Buy And Sears

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Samsung has announced a sleep tracker called SleepSense that can also plug into other connected devices you might have around your smart home — such as a smart TV or…

Samsung Outs A Sleep Tracker That Can Switch Off Your TV

SmartThings’s smart home devices are getting a lot sleeker — and a lot more powerful — as of today. The company today is releasing a new line of updated home…

SmartThings Unveils A New Smart Home Hub

It would appear that Amazon has plans to team up with SmartThings to power various home automation features with the Amazon Echo, the voice-powered personal assistant device. According to a…

SmartThings Support Is Coming To Amazon Echo

Samsung Electronics has launched a new open platform that it says will make developing smart devices faster and easier. ARTIK includes three circuit boards, software support, developer tools, and embedded…

Samsung Launches ARTIK, Its New Platform For Connected Devices

As you might have heard, Samsung loosened up the purse strings yesterday with a ~$200 million acquisition of SmartThings, a platform that sells starter kits for entirely personalized smart home…

A Q&A With SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson After Selling To Samsung For $200M

Google has Nest, Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has…SmartThings, we’re hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars, though it might have been less according to one source. (Update:…

Samsung In Talks To Scoop Up SmartThings For Around $200 Million

It’s CES 2014, and once again, SmartThings has taken over an entire house in Las Vegas to showcase all the cool things you can do with its home automation platform.…

If you haven’t yet connected all the rooms and lights and doors in your house to the Internet of Things, SmartThings wants to make it easier for you to do…

SmartThings Rolls Out A New iPhone App To Simplify Adding Your Home To The Internet Of Things

Internet-of-Things startup SmartThings has spent the last year building a platform that people can use to connect to an increasingly wide range of devices in their homes. Now it’s getting…

SmartThings Raises $12.5 Million From Greylock And Highland To Power The Internet Of Things

SmartThings doesn’t just come to Vegas and set up a boring old booth. These guys rented out a palatial villa just outside of downtown, both for the practical purposes of…

TC Cribs: SmartThings Gambles On The Connected Home In Vegas

Internet-of-things startup, SmartThings, has closed a $3m seed round. The round was led by First Round Capital and includes contributions from a swathe of angel networks and angels, including SV…

SmartThings Closes $3M Seed Round, Led By First Round Capital, Launches Competition To Grow Community Of Smart Object Developers