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Garmin designs GPS and sensor-based devices, including smartwatches, fitness trackers, and avionics systems for aircraft like the G3000 flight deck.
Google is selling the Fitbit Air in India for Rs 13,999, about $146 and roughly 47% more than the $99 it charges in the US. A band pitched elsewhere as the affordable screen-less option arrives as a premium buy where Indian startups compete on cost.
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Fifty-eight adults in Miami pedaled a recumbent bike wearing four consumer watches at once while a metabolic analyzer measured what they actually burned. Median error ran about 15% to 25%, and it rose with body fat.
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Google's Fitbit Air arrived in May and Garmin's Cirqa in July, both sold without the yearly fee Whoop charges. IDC says sensor quality has barely moved, so the software is what these companies are actually selling.
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Apple says the Series 12 and Ultra 4 are the most accurate heart-tracking wearables on the market. One reviewer's hour of walk-run intervals, judged against the same chest strap Apple's own accuracy study used, mostly backs it.
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Apple will add a Health Age number later this year to a category where Whoop, Oura, Withings and Garmin each compute their own. Verge reviewer Victoria Song has collected age scores from six products, and they do not agree.
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The deemed dividend sits three lines under the net income in the same S-1, and each outlet picked a different line. Under both is a subscription that attaches to 94% of rings and now carries the margin.
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Readiness compresses sleep, heart rate and activity into one number from zero to 10, then tells the wearer to recover or go for it. That is a different promise from the alerts users already trust.
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The $70m round adds Qualcomm silicon and a Labcorp diagnostics tie-up to the plan, while the only thing a developer can touch this month is a software update running on the chips Ultrahuman already ships.
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The 45% markup in eleven months is measured off October's $11B round. Membership at $5.99 covers roughly a fifth of forecast 2026 sales, and the draft filing carries no audited numbers.
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Textron delivered its 500th CJ4-series jet, and the Gen3 behind it sells a cockpit: Garmin Emergency Autoland on an aircraft already certified to fly with one pilot.
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