Minute Insight: Withings Continues Push Into Wearables With Two Acquisitions
Executive Summary
The consumer device company recently bought 8Fit, a German fitness app developer, and Impeto Medical, the developer of the Sudoscan technology for detecting and tracking small fiber neuropathy.
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