by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2019 | Health
We have followed Withings’ wearable tech since Health Tech Insider’s launch in June 2014. In the ensuing years, the firm was bought by Nokia in 2016 and then bought back by Withings’ co-founder and former chairman Éric Carreel in 2018. This year at CES...
by Bruce Brown | September 18, 2018 | General News, Health
As markets mature, many companies and brands cycle in and out of prominence while other ventures merge or are acquired by others. Unfortunately, some firms disappear from the market. And then there is Withings. We’ve followed Withings from its first entries in...
by Bruce Brown | May 3, 2018 | General News, Health
Nokia will sell its Digital Health wearable division to one of the founders of the company from which it bought the business. In April 2016, we diverted from our usual technology coverage to write about an agreement between two significant technology companies: Nokia...
by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring...
by Bruce Brown | June 30, 2017 | General News, Health
In Spring 2016 Finnish communications giant Nokia bought French health tech pioneering company Withings. Nokia’s then-President Ramzi Haidamus stated in a press release that Withings would run the digital health business. No brand name decisions or changes were...