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Samsung looks to outpace Google in race to buy Nokia Health
July 09, 2025
Samsung is apparently one of four companies interested in acquiring Nokia Health. According toLe Monde, this puts it incompetition with Google’s Nestand two French companies in the race to buy the ailing digital health business.
Nokia bought Withings, a digital health startup, in 2016 with an eye on the smart health market. After the takeover, Withings wasrebranded as Nokia Health. It currently produces a number of digital health products for the home including a body scale, activity trackers, and sleep sensors.
However, the takeover hasnot been a success. According toLe Monde, the eventual buyer is likely to pay less than the $192 million that Nokia paid for the company.
While both Google and Samsung are thought to be in the running to buy the company, theLe Mondearticle suggests that a takeover by a local firm is favored. This is due to the perceived importance of sectors related to the artificial intelligence industry within France.
Despite Nokia’s relative failure in the digital health market, the fact that companies as large as Google and Samsung seem to want to buy Nokia Health appears to show that for the right buyer there could still be value in the company’s products and intellectual property.
Both Samsung and Google already develop a wide range of connected products. Google has the smart home products from Nest as well as itsGoogle Homedevices. Samsung, meanwhile, has theSamsung SmartThings smart huband is reportedly developing aBixby-powered smart speaker. It is also involved in the digital health market through its Gear smartwatches and fitness bands.
It is easy to see, therefore, how the ready-made expertise and existing products of Nokia Health would fit pretty seamlessly into either company’s portfolio.
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