Wearables

Wells Fargo Customers Can Now Pay With Fitbit Pay
Wells Fargo Customers Can Now Pay With Fitbit Pay
January 12, 2018  |  Payment Methods

Wells Fargo announced Thursday (Jan. 11) that it has inked a partnership with wearables manufacturer Fitbit through which its customers can make purchases using Fitbit...

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Fitbit User Base Grew To 25M In 2017
Fitbit User Base Grew To 25M In 2017
January 09, 2018  |  Wearables

Fitbit has announced that its base of active users grew to more than 25 million in 2017. It was also revealed that the Fitbit Charge...

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Alexa Gets Friendly With Developers For Wearables
Alexa Gets Friendly With Developers For Wearables
January 05, 2018  |  Amazon

Amazon has rolled out a new Alexa developer kit for on-the-go devices, making it easier for manufacturers to integrate the wildly popular voice assistant into...

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Santa To Bring Speakers, Not Wearables, This Christmas
Santa To Bring Speakers, Not Wearables, This Christmas
December 22, 2017  |  Retail

Smart speakers from the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft are expected to beat out wearable devices this holiday shopping season as the digital device...

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Sluggish Fitbit Ionic Sales Put Company’s Future At Risk
Sluggish Fitbit Ionic Sales Put Company’s Future At Risk
December 18, 2017  |  Retail

The new Fitbit Ionic smartwatch, the latest iteration in the fitness technology company’s arsenal of wearable fitness trackers, has not delivered the business-saving boost Fitbit...

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Rebecca Minkoff Has Connected Commerce In The Bag
Rebecca Minkoff Has Connected Commerce In The Bag
November 20, 2017  |  Retail

There are few things more fashionable in 2017 than a progressive woman — but why stop at politics? Rebecca Minkoff’s connected handbag line lets the modern...

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Visa’s New Payment-Enabled Wearable Fits Like A Glove
Visa’s New Payment-Enabled Wearable Fits Like A Glove
November 09, 2017  |  Wearables

Visa, the payments company, announced news on Wednesday (Nov. 8) of the introduction of three commercially available wearable payment devices for the Olympic Winter Games...

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Foresight 20/20: NXT-ID And FitPay Inspired By Conference
Foresight 20/20: NXT-ID And FitPay Inspired By Conference
November 07, 2017  |  Startup Check-In

Consumers want payments to fit their lifestyles. That’s the premise on which startups NXT-ID and FitPay have built their financial services platform, and a premise...

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FitPay And NXT-ID Forge Ahead On Wearable, IoT Payments
FitPay And NXT-ID Forge Ahead On Wearable, IoT Payments
October 05, 2017  |  Startup Check-In

Paying with your smartphone is OK, but having the option to pay with any device you want — phone, smartwatch, fitness tracker, key fob — all while...

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