Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park has revealed that the company wants to launch its own wearable app store. Speaking in an interview at CES, Park said he wanted to launch a dedicated store “as soon as possible” and that building one would be helpful for employers and health care companies that use Fitbit’s fitness trackers for corporate wellness programs. “There are so many different applications [our partners] want to write,” Park said, “from fitness-related ones to pill reminder applications. And we don’t have the support in place for that right now, or any software infrastructure on our devices...

CES 2016: Fitbit goes on the defensive against the threat of the Apple Watch Arguably one of the most important wearable devices ever released, the Fitbit Blaze has a lot riding on its success. With Fitbit’s colossal share price and a precarious position as the number one manufacturer in the wearable market, the Blaze is the first Fitbit to be released with high expectations and serious competitors. While Fitbit has previously dismissed the Apple Watch as a competitor, a theme of CES 2016 has been the realisation that buyers will only wear one device on their wrist, and it seems...