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GoPro Exits Drone Market, Axes 20 Percent Of Workforce

GoPro announced Monday that it’s throwing in the towel on its drone business and cutting 20 percent of its workforce after failing to meet sales expectations. The action camera maker, which suffered a 22 percent decline in its stock price Monday after issuing a profit warning ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings results, lowered its revenue […]

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Blast Motion, Zepp Labs Announce Settlement Of Patent Infringement Suit

Blast Motion and Zepp Labs announced Friday a resolution to a patent infringement lawsuit Blast Motion filed in March 2015, whereby the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has issued an injunction against Zepp from selling or offering to sell its baseball and softball sensor products in the United States. The court […]

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SAP, Team AkzoNobel Capture Biometric Data During Volvo Ocean Race

For many years, the main focus of professional sailors has been weather and wind patterns, as well as route. Sailing Team Germany, for example, partnered with SAP to garner advanced sailing analytics in preparation for the 2016 Rio Olympics. But what about the sailors themselves? Team AkzoNobel used SAP SE’s biometric sensors at the Volvo Open Race […]

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Georgia Football Used MuscleSound In SEC Championship Season

SEC champion and College Football Playoff entrant Georgia has been using MuscleSound for assessments of players’ game readiness this season. MuscleSound is a Colorado-based company that uses ultrasound imagery to measure glycogen and determine muscle fuel by sending photos to its cloud for computation with its proprietary algorithms. Low readings can be a precursor to […]

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