Amazon to obtain maker of Roomba vacuum for more or less $1.7 billion

A vacuuming Roomba type robotic is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts

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Amazon is obtaining iRobot for $61 a percentage, an all-cash deal that values the Roomba maker at $1.7 billion, the firms introduced Friday.

Stocks of iRobot have been halted after the deal used to be introduced. Amazon’s inventory used to be up about 0.2% in premarket buying and selling.

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