Nokia acquired the French startup Withings

After three years away from selling phones business, which was sold to Microsoft, Nokia returns to the consumer market. Yesterday, the Finnish company has announced the acquisition for 191 million dollars, about 170 million euro in cash, the French company Withings, a startup specializing in the production of devices for monitoring body parameters. The transaction should be completed after the summer, after obtaining the approval of regulators.

Withings, which can boast of the things in the Internet skills of its staff, 200 people from France, the US and Hong Kong, and which is expressed in a series of related products, from the latest smartwatch Activité bracelets for fitness, the thermometer Thermo bluetooth.
 
"We were impressed by the plans on preventive medicine and care of the people that the Nokia team has shared with us," wrote Hutchings, one of the founders of the French company.
 
"We have often said that digital health was an area of strategic interest for us," said Rajeev Suri, president and CEO of Nokia. "With this acquisition, we position ourselves at the heart of a very large market in which we can make a difference." The agreement with Microsoft is expected that the Finnish company could not use his brand of consumer products until 2016.