Most app developers have few incentives to build their own hardware, let alone the resources. With 25 million mobile users, Runtastic has both -- so it only makes sense that the company is bringing a ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness ...

The Runtastic Orbit is one of the easiest fitness-tracking watches I've ever used. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth in a couple of easy steps. It's waterproof (not water resistant, like some ...

Runtastic is doing the reverse of what many startups are doing these days: it’s going from being a software platform provider to becoming a hardware maker with the Runtastic Orbit fitness tracker. The ...

Fitness app developer Runtastic has brought its related sports hardware to the U.S., including a heart rate monitor, GPS sports watch, and bicycle cadence meter. I'm an expert in software and ...

This story was updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 25. The Runtastic Orbit is a fitness tracker that monitors both daily activity (steps, calories and distance) as well as your sleep habits, and is ...

Jawbone’s UP app offers advanced (better?) algorithms, and works with Jawbone’s collection of activity trackers. There’s a version of the app that works without a Jawbone, using your phone and third ...

If you've heard of Runtastic, it probably means you're something of a jock: The company got its start building running apps for tracking your distance, pace, et cetera. For the past two years, though, ...

Wearables are popping up left and right, but they aren’t setting the world on fire. One problem might be too many options, and too few useful ones. The other might be the fact that most of them are ...

Runtastic has been bought by Adidas, the fitness-app-making company’s CEO Florian Gschwandtner announced in a blog post today. The deal reportedly values Runtastic at around $239 million dollars. “We ...

Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name, in a deal worth €220 million ($239 million). Founded out of ...

Runtastic, makers of one of the most popular fitness-focused apps on Apple's App Store, announced on Wednesday that they have been acquired by athletic apparel company Adidas for a reported $239 ...