Google ready for new concessions to take over Fitbit

Google has agreed to allow other makers of wearables to easily connect to its Android platform and its application programming interface (API) as a new condition for the European Commission’s anti-trust body’s endorsement of its planned $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, according to Reuters. According to Bloomberg, it has also ...

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