Tag: Pulse
ADT partners with LG Electronics, Nest
May 14, 2015Amy Canfield
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Rumors that ADT is working with Google's Nest are not rumors after all. ADT CEO Naren Gursahaney announced today at an investor conference that ADT is partnering with Google's Nest and with LG Electronics.It will work with LG Electronics on a new “All-In-One” smart security product and with Google's Nest to integrate the Nest Learning Thermostat into ADT's Pulse product.Security Systems News wrote about ADT partnering with Nest in January.ADT plans to introduce...
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ADT partners with State Farm to promote Pulse
December 3, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
Security companies often use as a selling point the fact that insurance companies give discounts to homeowners who have a security system. But ADT announced this week that it is leveraging that insurance company relationship in a new way: by partnering with State Farm to give that leading insurer's customers special deals on Pulse. And the customers who get Pulse can also end up with a discount on their State Farm home insurance.
Seems like a pretty smart way to get customers to sign up for a smart...
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ADT shares predicted to rise 20 percent
February 27, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
An article in Barron's has the financial media world abuzz because it predicts shares of The ADT Corp. “could climb by more than 20 percent over the next year.”
The article in the latest edition of the weekly financial newspaper owned by Dow Jones cites the push into home automation by the publicly traded ADT, which spun off from Tyco in September. ADT Pulse, introduced in 2010, is the driver of much of ADT's growth, the article said.
Barron's also indirectly suggests ADT could buy a...
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Q1 sales, profits up for ADT
January 30, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
Sales of Pulse are up more than 6 percent and recurring revenue up more than 5 percent, The ADT Corp reported today as it released its results from its first quarter ending Dec. 28. The home security/home automation giant also said it added 257,000 new customers and has 6.4 million customer accounts.
When ADT on Sept. 28 became an independent, publicly traded company after spinning off from Tyco International, CEO Naren Gursahaney told me that it was not "a moonshot” for ADT's residential penetration...
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ADT makes RMR forecast
November 27, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
The ADT Corp., which just became independent in September, says its Pulse product is doing so well that it predicts that recurring revenue will grow by 4.9 percent to 5.2 percent in fiscal year 2013, the company said this week in a report on its Q4 and fiscal year 2012 results.
“We delivered solid recurring revenue growth fueled by the continued success of Pulse in the residential and small business security markets,” ADT CEO Naren Gursahaney said in a statement. “Our focus for...
Talking mobile apps and new entrants at ESX
July 3, 2012Martha Entwistle
New entrants into the security industry and mobile apps where major topics of interest at the ESX show in Nashville, Tennessee where Tess, Rich and I spent the last week.
I moderated three panel discussions on three different topics on Tuesday, but both of these topics came up in all three. And they came up in many other educational sessions last week,
I moderated a panel called “Technology Trends Impacting your Business,” with Wells Sampson from American Alarm, David Carter of SNA, and...
ADT putting 4,000 iPads in hands of its sales reps
March 14, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
BOCA RATON, Fla.—ADT started providing its sales reps with iPads a few months ago, and has found the wireless devices so useful in boosting sales that it plans to put them in the hands of all its approximately 4,000 reps by the end of 2012, according to Joe O'Connell, VP of residential sales ADT North America.
The iPads not only help sales reps manage their work more efficiently—saving time they can use for extra sales calls—but are proving to be a valuable presentation tool...
Tyco's Breen talks about new entrants, PULSE, ADT spin-off
January 31, 2012Martha Entwistle
There were some interesting tidbits on today's Tyco earnings call—about earnings of course, but also about new cable/telco entrants into the security industry, stats on ADT's PULSE offering, and a progress report on the conglomerate's split into three, separate, publicly traded companies.
On the new entrants: In response to a question about how/if new cable/telco entrants into the security industry is affecting ADT, Tyco CEO Ed Breen said: “We track every market we're...
Tyco looks to acquire Visonic
June 21, 2011Martha Entwistle
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Tyco International, parent company of ADT, is in talks to acquire security product manufacturer Visonic, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
“I can confirm that we're in discussion with Visonic and that may or may not lead to definitive transaction,” Tyco spokesman Paul FitzHenry told Security Systems News on June 21. He declined further comment.
News of the deal surfaced today in a report, published by Israel-based new outlet domain-b.
The report cites a Visonic...