FitBit launches new products

- Fitbit, the maker of wearables mainly tracking your sports activities, will end 2016 with new products. That Fitbit boss James Park said at the presentation of the quarterly figures, writes The Verge. What kind of products are launched is not known exactly.

There are already rumors were circulating that Fitbit wanted to expand its product portfolio, but which have now been confirmed. The first quarter of 2016 were moreover positive: It sold a total of 4.8 million devices. Sales in the first quarter, more than $ 500 million (over 436 million).

Striking figures: revenues came mainly from the new Alta and Blaze. That were for sale only a month. That shows, according to the chief financial officer of Fitbit how important it is that there will be new products regularly.