Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion

Photo caption: iRobot’s Roomba j7+ robot vacuum. Photo credit: iRobot. Article by Ron Amadeo. Ars Technica – August 5, 2022.

Amazon just announced a blockbuster deal to buy the home robotics company iRobot for $1.7 billion. The pending acquisition would be Amazon’s fourth-largest ever, after the purchase of grocery chain Whole Foods in 2017 ($13.7 billion), the movie studio MGM in 2021 ($8.45 billion), and the medical provider One Medical last month ($3.9 billion). […]

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