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Forrester: 35 percent of millennials will buy a fitness wearable in the next...

Some 21 percent of US adults use a wearable device right now, and of those, 36 percent use a Fitbit device, according to a Forrester Research survey of 952 online US adults.After Fitbit, 16 percent use...

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Fitbit employees ordered by court to turn over alleged Jawbone secrets

Fitbit Surge Updated with statement from Fitbit A California judge has ordered, in a preliminary injunction, that the five Fitbit employees accused of stealing trade secrets must return any Jawbone...

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Jawbone files counterclaim against Fitbit's patent suit

Fitbit Surge Jawbone has filed an answer and counterclaim against Fitbit in response to the patent infringement lawsuit that Fitbit filed in early September, according to TechCrunch.The suit Fitbit...

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Amid maturing wearables market, Jawbone lays off 60 employees

Heart rate-tracking wearable Jawbone has laid off 60 employees, 15 percent of its workforce, according to a report in TechCrunch. The layoffs extend across the company, but the restructuring includes...

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Time is ripe for big consumer brands to move into regulated medical apps,...

Considering recent events, big name consumer brands are more likely than ever to move into regulated medical devices.Two weeks ago Apple CEO Tim Cook told a newspaper that while his company wouldn't...

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Jawbone adds $165M but loses new president and half its valuation

A piece of long-awaited good news for fitness wearable maker Jawbone -- $165 million in new equity funding -- came with two more pieces of bad news: a subsequent drop in valuation and the departure of...

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In light of lawsuit, Consumer Reports revisits, reasserts accuracy of Fitbit...

There’s been much ado lately about Fitbit’s heart rate tracking technology, found in its Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge trackers. A recent class action lawsuit alleges that the devices are...

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Unexpected insights, correlations and stats from health tracking companies

Health tracking apps and devices offer consumers the ability to track an increasing number of relevant metrics. Over the years a number of the companies behind them, especially the ones with larger...

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Roundup of recent digital health moves: Teladoc, CareSync, Jawbone, athenahealth

Teladoc, a video visits company, has hired Stephany Verstraete as its chief marketing officer. Before working at Teladoc, Verstraete worked in marketing for Truveris, as their CMO. She's held past...

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Jawbone finally kills support for BodyMedia devices

Last month saw the last vestige of BodyMedia, the FDA-cleared consumer-facing wearable device company acquired by Jawbone in 2013, slip away. On January 31st the company officially stopped making...

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Fitbit argues Jawbone's patents are too abstract to enforce

Fitbit's ongoing legal battle with Jawbone about patents has heated up recently, as Fitbit claims that certain Jawbone patents are overly broad and thus invalid. Fitbit is challenging a Jawbone patent...

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Jawbone adds another ex-employee to suit against Fitbit over allegedly stolen...

Jawbone has added a new defendant to one of its cases against Fitbit. This case is the one in which Jawbone alleges Fitbit poached employees who stole Jawbone trade secrets, according to Fortune.In the...

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Report: Jawbone users like the app, but not the device; vice versa for Fitbit

We tend to think of activity tracking devices and the companion apps that process their data as single product offerings. But a new report from Argus Insights suggests that perhaps the users of these...

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ITC judge invokes 17th-century diarist in ruling invalidating Jawbone patents...

An administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission has ruled that the two Jawbone patents Fitbit was accused of infringing upon are ineligible and invalid. Judge Dee Lord went deep in...

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Timeline: 23 news events that led to Jawbone's (reported) stripped-down pivot

Jawbone is selling its speaker business and may also be halting sales of its wearable tracker line, according to various reports. Another report says these efforts will be followed up by the launch of...

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Roundup of recent digital health hires and departures: Apple, American Well,...

Apple has quietly hired Dr. Rajiv B. Kumar, a pediatric endocrinologist currently employed by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University, FastCo reported Friday. He will continue working...

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Jawbone's secret 2015 acquisition sheds light on its rumored clinical wearable

Jawbone quietly acquired a company last year that could shed some light on the company's rumored clinical wearable, MobiHealthNews has learned. Spectros, a startup founded by current Jawbone Chief...

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Three Fitbit patents invalidated by ITC in case against Jawbone

Another day, another digital heath patent invalidated by the courts. After an International Trade Comission judge invalidated Jawbone patents in May and a federal judge invalidated American Well...

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Digital health rumor mill: Apple prepping new health device, Jawbone mulling...

The Apple rumor mill is rolling again, this time with reports of a new forthcoming health device. According to Apple Insider, via Taiwanese paper Economic Daily News, the new product, two years in the...

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Consumer health tech companies are moving increasingly into healthcare

More and more, direct-to-consumer wearables companies are moving into business-to-business healthcare markets. It's not exactly a surprising move -- the potential for consumer technology to encourage...

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