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\n Amazon acquired Ring, a video doorbell maker, on Tuesday, marking another foothold in the home security and surveillance business for the company.<\/p>\n

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Amazon really wants to come over to your house. Or at least make it to the front door. <\/p>\n

The Seattle-based tech giant announced Tuesday it’s made another move into the home security and surveillance business, acquiring Ring, a smart-doorbell maker that streams audio and video to cellphones. <\/p>\n

Neither company has released details about the deal but Reuters reported <\/a>that it cost over $1 billion. <\/p>\n

Amazon may have just officially put a ring on Ring, but the relationship between the two started through its Alexa Fund, which funnels money into companies that create new ways to integrate Amazon’s voice technology into their products. In June, Ring announced <\/a>they’d figured out how to connect select devices to work with Alexa on Echo Show and Fire TV. <\/p>\n

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Two months ago Amazon also snapped up Blink<\/a>, another maker of Wi-Fi-connected security cameras that has recently ventured into the video doorbell industry, according <\/a>to TechCrunch. <\/p>\n

But Amazon is not just leaving it up to other companies to watch what’s going on at your front door. In November, it debuted a new home security camera called Cloud Cam<\/a> that comes with Amazon Key<\/a>, an app that lets some Amazon Prime members grant service providers \u2014 including dog walkers, house cleaners and delivery companies \u2014 keyless entry into homes. <\/p>\n