Google Acquires Fitbit for $2.1 Billion – What ’ s That Mean for Healthcare?

The big healthcare news today was something we’d heard rumored for a few days already.  Google will be acquiring Fitbit for the tidy sum of $2.1 billion (See the Google announcement and Fitbit press release for details).  This number is particularly interesting since Fitbit’s IPO in 2015 that valued it at $4.1 billion.  Hard to […]
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