The biggest problem with crowdfunding websites is trust. It’s a tricky proposition for companies to begin with: we have an idea; give us a bunch of money well in advance, and we’ll give you a product in a few months’ time, if everything works out. It’s a process that goes hand-in-hand with fraud and failures, …
Fitbit is rumored to buy Pebble, and Pebble fans have every reason to be upset. A new report indicates that Fitbit will not buy all of Pebble. Instead, the wearable maker is only after the software side of the Pebble business. How will this affect current Pebble customers who funded some of Pebble’s latest Kickstarters? …
The wearables market may be in for an interesting shakeup this holiday season. According to a new report from The Information, Fitbit is close to finalizing a deal that would see the company acquire Pebble “for a small amount.”
Choosing a smartwatch right now is a decision that’s mostly made based on the mobile operating system you currently favor. The Apple Watch only works with the iPhone, Android Wear devices only support Android smartphones, and smartwatch models running third-party operating system might work with both iOS or Android. However, if you’re still not sold …
The Apple Watch is the talk of the town when it comes to wearable devices, as Apple prepares to start taking preorders for the smartwatch this week. However, the Apple Watch isn’t the only smart device smartwatch buyers can consider, and CNET offers a comparison between Apple’s latest creation and its main competitors.
As the fastest funded project in Kickstarter history, having raised over $1 million in less than an hour, it’s not as if the new Pebble Time Kickstarter needs an infusion of money. As it stands now, the campaign already has over $18 million in funding from over 72,000 backers. Still, with the Apple Watch dominating the tech …
Apple media events have a pesky way of consuming the entirety of the tech news cycle; sometimes for a day, sometimes for a week. Whenever Apple introduces a new product, other tech companies would be well advised to sit silently on the sidelines and wait for the barrage of media attention to pass on by. Unless, …
We’re still over three weeks out from the end of Pebble’s latest record-smashing Kickstarter campaign, but this week at Mobile World Congress, the company revealed a premium model of its Pebble Time smartwatch… and it looks suspiciously familiar.
That was fast. Three years ago, Pebble took Kickstarter by storm with its first customizable watch. The project broke every conceivable crowdfunding record, and until last summer, it was the most funded project in Kickstarter’s short history. Then the Coolest Cooler came along and knocked it off its perch. But in 2015, Pebble is primed to reclaim …
Pebble Technology, the company that made one of the best-selling smartwatches to date, seems ready to fight against Apple’s first smartwatch with a brand-new product of its own. To better compete against Apple’s highly customizable device, Pebble has come up with a new smartwatch design that it first revealed on Tuesday as part of its newest Kickstarter project. …
