The company did a similar fold-in with smart home subsidiary Nest.
Chronicle has been one of Alphabet's "Other Bets," which are Google sister companies aiming to produce the next big tech innovation. The move comes more than a year after Alphabet folded its smart home subsidiary Nest back into the Google family. The move comes as Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian makes wide-ranging changes to the group as he surpasses six months on the job. Earlier this month,data analytics provider Looker for $2.6 billion, Kurian's first big acquisition since the former Oracle executive replaced former Google Cloud leader Diane Greene.