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Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion

Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. In a blog post announcing the news, Google SVP of devices and services Rick Osterloh said that the Fitbit purchase is “an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market.”

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  • kxh (edited 5 years ago)
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    So google gets all your intimate health data too, to add to all the other things it knows about you.

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    • Gozzin
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      Yep,except for those of us who refuse to use the thing.

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