Google’s Nest Buys Dropcam for $555 Million (recode.net)

Hopefully they will now allow to stream on the local network and the company will not disappear and render all these cameras useless...

That's unfortunate. This has been a popular device for our small store owner clients, and we've been getting a lot of unprompted pushback recently from customers when recommending anything related to Google.

And I can't really fault them for it. I half expect these to be requiring a Google Plus account within a couple of years.