Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, November 1st, 2019.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google Acquires Fitbit. Apple TV Plus officially launches. Might the

U.S. government be about to bring the hammer down on Tik-Toc? And of course the weekend Long Reed's suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Google has acquired Fitbit for 2.1 billion dollars or $7.35 per share in cash.

Actually, of course, it's Alphabet who is doing the acquiring, but of course you understand that.

I don't remember if I talked about this or not, but in January, Google paid $40 million for Fossil Smart Watch Tech and IP, so it certainly looks

like Google has decided it once in on the Wearables action.

Sources are saying that Facebook held talk. the

whererables action.

Sources are saying that

Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit as well,

but only wanted to pay about half of what Google ended up paying.

Quoting,

CMBC, Following the announcement, Google's hardware chief, Rick Osterlo, released a blog post explaining how the acquisition can help Google advance its ambitions for Ware OS, its software for smart watches.

By working closely with Fitbit's team of experts and bringing together the best AI,

software and hardware, we can help spur innovation in

wearables and build products to benefit even more people

around the world.

Ostrolo said.

Google also remains committed to WearOS and our ecosystem partners and

we plan to work closely with Fitbit to combine the best of our respective

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