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Circular will pay competitor Oura royalties to sell its smart ring in the US


Smart ring makers Oura and Circular Tuesday announced a settlement in an ongoing patent suit. The agreed-upon terms find the French company entering into

In March, CEO Tom Hale announced that the firm had filed a complaint with the FTC, alleging that Circular and fellow smart ring makers Ultrahuman and RingConn had infringed multiple patents with their products. Less than a year after closing its seed round, software-for-hardware startup Sift announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV to scale their platform for… Snapchat on Tuesday announced a new suite of safety features, including updates to its account blocking functionality and enhanced friending safeguards, making it difficult for strangers to contact users on…

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