 The purchase didn't include Bang & Olufsen's consumer-electronics business.In 2015, recognizing the increasing role of software and services in the markets it served, Harman expanded its capabilities around cloud, mobility and analytics with the acquisitions of Symphony Teleca, a software services company based in Mountain View, CA, and Redbend, an Israeli-based provider of software management technology for connected devices, and over-the-air (OTA) software and firmware upgrading services.With these additions, Harman announced the formation of a fourth division, which they called Connected Services.