Google buying Fitbit would raise red flags with regulators, CFRA’s Freeman says
By Bloomberg
29 October 2019 |
2:00 pm
John Freeman, CFRA vice president of equity research, discusses the report that Google made an offer to buy Fitbit. He speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close." Freeman, his family and his firm do not own shares of Alphabet.
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