Fitbit activity tracker

Fitbit moves full steam ahead with health initiatives despite lackluster earnings

By Laura Lovett 01:44 pm February 28, 2018

Fitbit reported its fourth quarter and full year earnings yesterday. Fourth quarter earnings continues to post a loss, with a reported $571 million in revenues and a net loss of $46 million, as did its full year report, in which the company reported a total revenue of $1.6 billion and a net loss of $277 million, down 1 percent year over year. Last year the company launched the Fitbit Ionic, a...

Does Fitbit's WiFi-enabled Aria scale need FDA clearance?

By Brian Dolan 02:56 am March 12, 2013

In January 2012 Fitbit expanded beyond wearable activity tracking devices when it launched its Aria WiFi Smart Scale at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While it offers much of the same functionality -- if not identical features -- to many of its peers, it is now one of the only connected weight scales that does not have FDA 510(k) clearance as a medical device. Perhaps the best known WiFi-...