[Kilimanjaro]

Google should buy Arduino.

[ashconnor]

What would they do with it?

[jonsen]

A Really Dumb Undertaking If No Objective

[Kilimanjaro]

Talent. Diversify. Community. Future. Ideas. Good will. Open source. Innovation.

[mkr-hn]

I'd be worried about Google if they based acquisitions on buzzword soup.

[Kilimanjaro]

I'd be worried if my CEO doesn't understand the internet of things.

[mkr-hn]

You responded to a question with a list of buzzwords. You responded to a gentle ribbing of that list of buzzwords with another buzzword.

[JoachimSchipper]

That particular buzzword doesn't usually refer to hacker-built one-off projects, like the tweeting coffee pot mentioned in the article.

[tesseract]

Somehow I don't think Arduino is looking to be acquired.

But if they were, I can think of a couple of companies that, unlike Google, might actually stand to benefit from such a move.