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Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the sunk-like-a-stone dept.

takyon writes:

Pebble has announced that the company will shut down and cease the production of its smartwatches. Many of the developers will join Fitbit, and Fitbit has acquired Pebble's "technology, software, and other intellectual property".

Pebble previously rejected offers of $740 million and later $70 million for the company. Fitbit is paying around $40 million for parts of Pebble without assuming its debts (which are around the same amount).

"A Look Back at Pebble's Rise and Fall" at PC Magazine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:55AM (#438571)

    Not futuristic enough. Need to combine tricorder, communicator, and phaser into one taserphone.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:59AM (#438572)

    And market exclusively to women because men will be irrelevant in the future economy.

    http://www.womenonguard.com/stun-guns/cell-phone-stun-guns [womenonguard.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:30AM (#438579)

      I really do wonder what it's like, up there, in your head. I've seen fucked up people, but you... are summink else...

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:50AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:50AM (#438583) Journal

      Love that, lol.

      I can just see it: woman forgets what she's doing, goes to make a phone call and tazers herself. Man, that would be an EPIC FAIL!!

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      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:52AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:52AM (#438585) Journal

        Just had a thought: that would be like a man carrying a joke impotence causing condom to give as a joke gift to a friend and then forgetting and putting it on just before having sex with a gorgeous woman.

        EPIC FAIL 2.O!!

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