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Apple’s COO Jeff Williams exuberantly proclaimed Apple’s Watch was the first to get FDA clearance as an over-the-counter electrocardiogram (EKG) reader during the special event at Apple headqu

The once-ascendant world of wearables seems to be on shaky ground of late, but you’ve got to hand it to polar for really going all in. The Finnish company’s certainly got the history to back it up

Polar’s been doing heart rate monitoring before it was cool. Way, way before. In fact, the company’s been making the things since 1982, giving it a three-decade head-start on most of the competi

Polar goes back. Way, way back. Back to the early 80s, when the Finnish company launched its first portable heart rate monitor, the Sport Tester PE 2000. Back when wearable fitness devices weren’t r

Polar just released a brand-new version of its activity tracker, the Loop 2. The company now competes directly with the Fitbit Charge and Jawbone Up, as the new tracker now packs more features to stay

A few months ago, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal and a number of other publications reported that Google had acquired the social polling startup Polar and that its founders were going to join the

<a target="_blank" href="http://polarb.com/">Polar</a>, the social voting app that raised $1.2 million from Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Google's Don Dodge and other prominent investors last year, is lau

The overall landscape of mobile apps is an interesting one, with most of the top free titles on Apple’s App Store being games or services pushed by massive companies like Twitter (Vine) or Googl

Social voting app <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polar/id563322683?mt=8">Polar</a> has raised $1.2 milliom from Yahoo founder Jerry Yang at AME Cloud Ventures, Greylock Partn

It happens to the best of entrepreneurs: That service, app, or site that you set up finds an audience that totally blows your mind. You thought that a certain set of people would flock to your app lik

We told you about the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/social-voting-app-polar-has-had-over-a-half-million-votes-in-its-first-eleven-days/">super-simple and super-sticky voting app Polar for

Hot-or-not is a site that most of us who have used the web are familiar with. Sit down at your desk, look at pictures and profiles of a bunch of people, and respond to them with an easy voting interac

I've used quite a few heart rate monitoring watches in my day. I've played with <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/review-suunto-core-light-black/">Suuntos</a> and <a HREF="https://techcrunch.