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Jawbone Goes Shopping, Buys Two Companies

By TechTaffy Desk

Jawbone[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Jawbone has acquired Visere and Massive Health. The Massive Health and Visere teams will join Jawbone’s existing workforce. The size of the acquisitions were not shared.

Visere is in the design space, and was founded in 2009. Visere specialties include user experience, user interaction, digital strategy, and application and services design and development, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. Visere collaborated with Jawbone to develop the user experience of their Up writstband.

Massive Health was started in 2010, and is led by former Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin. The company is in the healthcare technology space. Jawbone will continue to maintain Eatery, an app developed by Massive Health that lets users upload pictures of their food and let others rate how healthy it is.

[Image courtesy: Jawbone]

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