Month: November 2021

Life360 To Acquire Tile, Creating The World Leader in Finding and Location Solutions

Dan Uff November 23, 2021 0

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Life360, the leading family safety platform, today announced that it plans to acquire Tile, the pioneer in finding technology, creating the world leader in finding and location solutions. The deal, which will provide families and individuals across all life stages with a comprehensive cross-platform solution that enables location-based finding of people, pets and things, is valued at $205 million and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022. Tile will continue to operate with its own brand identity under the leadership of Tile CEO CJ Prober, who will also join the Life360 Board of Directors. The Tile team is expected to remain in place.

"Life360 is on a mission to simplify safety so families can live fully. With the acquisition of Tile, we will now be able to provide a unique and all-encompassing solution for finding the people, pets and things that families care about most," said Chris Hulls, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of Life360. "This acquisition marks a key step forward towards Life360 achieving its vision of being the world's leading platform for safety and location services. We are thrilled to welcome Tile to the Life 360 family."

"This is a great day for Tile, our customers, and our employees," said CJ Prober, CEO of Tile. "This acquisition not only brings together two incredible teams with complementary missions and values, it paves the way for us to jointly build the world's leading solutions for peace of mind and safety. This is the next step in our journey, and I could not be more excited to continue leading our incredible team and to join the Life360 Board."

Combining the finding power of Life360 and Tile will result in:

A complete family safety experience for consumers - The acquisition will create the only vertically integrated, cross-platform solution of scale that enables families and individuals to live life fully, by keeping the things they care about safe and connected. The combined service will bring together world class software and finding capabilities for people, pets and things in a unified platform. Individuals and families will be able to tap into Life360's flagship mobile app, a market leading app for families with features that range from communications to driving safety and location sharing. Additionally, people will be able to seamlessly leverage Tile's bluetooth-enabled finding devices trackers, which can equip nearly any item — such as wallets, keys or remotes — with location-based finding technology. Tile's technology is also embedded in over 50 different third-party devices, ranging from wireless earbuds and headphones to laptops to retainer cases to dog collars. This is further enhanced by Life360's recently announced acquisition of Jiobit -- which makes cellular and GPS-based devices to easily locate pets and young children in real time.

Life360's global footprint will significantly expand the reach of Tile's Finding Network, which helps users find lost items when they are out of bluetooth range. The addition of Life360's network of 33 million smartphone users is expected to increase the reach of Tile's Finding Network by ~10x.
Accelerated company growth and international expansion - The acquisition will accelerate both companies' international growth plans. Both Life360 and Tile are platform agnostic -- meaning they work on both iOS and Android -- offering an additional competitive advantage, especially in Android-leading international markets. Life360 will also now have access to consumers through over 27,000 brick and mortar stores where Tiles are sold, and the over one million third party devices on which the Tile technology has been activated. Both companies have significant paid subscription services, and the acquisition is expected to increase Life360's paid subscriber base by about 45% to around 1.6 million people.

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange since 2019, Life360's momentum in recent years, including the Tile acquisition, will help it pursue additional opportunities.

Credit Suisse and Code Advisors acted as Life360's joint financial advisers. DLA Piper and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP acted as Life360's legal advisers. Jefferies LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Tile and Fenwick and West LLP served as Tile's legal adviser.

For more information on Life360, please visit life360.com.

About Life360
Life360 operates a platform for today's busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better know, communicate with and protect the people they care about most. The Company's core offering, the Life360 mobile app, is a market leading app for families, with features that range from communications to driving safety and location sharing. Life360 is based in San Francisco and had more than 33 million monthly active users (MAU) as at June 2021, located in more than 195 countries. For more information, please visit life360.com.

About Tile
Locating millions of unique items every day, Tile™ gives everything the power of smart location. Leveraging its vast community that spans 195 countries, Tile's cloud-based finding platform helps people find the things that matter to them most. In addition to devices in multiple form factors for every use case, Tile works with over 40 partner products leveraging its finding technology across audio, travel, wearables and PC categories. Recently awarded #5 on Fast Company's list of Most Innovative consumer electronics companies, Tile is based in San Mateo, CA and is backed by Francisco Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and GGV Capital. For more information, please visit Tile.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and comments about future events, including statements regarding Life360's intentions, objectives, plans, expectations, assumptions and beliefs about future events, including the industry and markets in which Life360 operates, Life360's expectations in relation to the financial and operating performance of its business, the potential impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential acquisition of Tile and Life360's expectations regarding the future performance of Tile's products and business and markets. The words "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "project", "predict", "will", "forecast", "estimate", "likely", "intend", "outlook", "should", "could", "may", "target", "plan" and other similar expressions can generally be used to identify forward-looking statements. Indications of, and guidance or outlook on, future earnings or financial position or performance are also forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements as they involve inherent risk and uncertainty (both general and specific) and should note that they are provided as a general guide only. There is a risk that such predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not be achieved. Subject to any continuing obligations under applicable law, Life360 does not undertake any obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document, to reflect any change in expectations in relation to any forward-looking statements or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based. While due care has been used in the preparation of forecast information, actual results may vary in a materially positive or negative manner. Forward-looking statements are provided as a general guide only and should not be relied on as an indication or guarantee of future performance, and are subject to known and unknown risks.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States. Life360's CDIs are issued in reliance on the exemption from registration contained in Regulation S of the US Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) for offers of securities which are made outside the US. Accordingly, the CDIs, have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or the laws of any state or other jurisdiction in the US. As a result of relying on the Regulation S exemption, the CDIs are 'restricted securities' under Rule 144 of the Securities Act. This means that you are unable to sell the CDIs into the US or to a US person who is not a QIB for the foreseeable future except in very limited circumstances until after the end of the restricted period, unless the re-sale of the CDIs is registered under the Securities Act or an exemption is available. To enforce the above transfer restrictions, all CDIs issued bear a FOR Financial Product designation on the ASX. This designation restricts any CDIs from being sold on ASX to US persons excluding QIBs. However, you are still able to freely transfer your CDIs on ASX to any person other than a US person who is not a QIB. In addition, hedging transactions with regard to the CDIs may only be conducted in accordance with the Securities Act.

SOURCE Life360

How to set up an Apple Watch to Notify you of a High Heart Rate

Dan Uff November 21, 2021 0

When it comes to your health, seconds count. Did you know you can have an Apple Watch notify you of a high heart rate?

Here's how:

Launch the Watch App on your iPhone.
Select the "My Watch" section.
Scroll down and find the Heart app.
Go into the app.
Scroll down until you see the "Set up Irregular Rhythm Notification in Health" section.
This will launch the Health app on the iPhone.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
After that, make sure the Irregular Rhythm option is Toggled "ON".
Below that, you can set the high and low heart rate.
This will determine when the watch will alert you.
Set those rates.
That's it.

Now you have a "partner" when it comes to your heart health.

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Dan Uff November 20, 2021 0

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Apple delays full office opening until March, 2022

Dan Uff November 19, 2021 0

Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has sent a memo to all Apple employees announcing that Apple is again delaying all employees be back onsite at Apple Headquarters until March, 2022.

Below is a copy of that memo:

Team,

It’s hard to believe we’re already in the home stretch of 2021. As I reflect on this extraordinary year, I’m so proud of what we’ve been able to achieve. Together, we have launched some of Apple’s best products ever. We are making important strides in our efforts to protect the environment and build a more equitable world. And we are touching the lives of countless people, providing them with the tools to connect, create, learn, and grow.

Most remarkably, we have achieved all of this with many of our teams working remotely as we’ve navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic. This experience has taught us a great deal about flexible work, while also reminding us of the irreplaceable value of in-person collaboration. We are eager to carry these lessons forward, and with that in mind, I want to share our current plans for returning to the office in the months ahead. Know that, as we’ve done all along, we are monitoring local conditions closely and are prepared to make necessary adjustments to our planning.

As of today, we are targeting February 1, 2022 to begin our hybrid work pilot in many global locations where teams have not yet returned to our corporate offices. We plan to start the pilot with a phased approach, welcoming people back to the office for one or two days a week for an initial period of four weeks. After this transitional period, we will begin the pilot in full, with eligible teams in the office three days a week, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and with flexibility to work remotely on Wednesday and Friday. You’ll receive more details about how the first four-week phase will roll out as we get closer to the return date.

As I noted when we announced our hybrid work pilot, we do have a number of teams whose work requires a greater need to work in-person, and they will come into the office four or five days a week based on the plans for these specific teams. Those plans will depend on your role and may differ according to your location. If you have any questions about your schedule, please talk to your manager.

I am so looking forward to more of our teams being back together again. Our Retail store teams have been welcoming customers and offering the personal care and service they have come to expect from us. Some of our teams internationally have also returned to their offices and are benefiting from the ability to see one another and collaborate face to face. And nearly half of our Silicon Valley employees have been coming into the office at some point each week. Based on those experiences, we are confident in our protocols and our ability to ensure a thriving environment for everyone.

At the same time, we are committed to giving you more flexibility as we move forward. In addition to the option of working remotely twice a week on Wednesday and Friday, we announced this summer that team members would be able to work remotely for up to two weeks per year with a manager’s approval. I’m pleased to share that we’re increasing the amount of time you can work remotely to a total of four weeks per year. This provides more opportunity to travel, be closer to your loved ones, or simply shake up your routines.

As we prepare to begin this new pilot, I want to reiterate that we remain focused, first and foremost, on the health and well-being of our teams and your families. We know that vaccination is the most important step we can take for our own health and the health of our communities, and is the best way to prevent the severity and spread of the virus. We will continue to closely review government guidance and requirements around vaccination. In the meantime, we strongly encourage everyone who is able to get the vaccine to do so if it’s available to you.

We recognize the situation with the pandemic is dynamic and are prepared to adjust our timing, approach, and protocols—such as masking, distancing, vaccination requirements, and other measures—as necessary based on local conditions.

We look forward to this next phase of our journey, and to adjusting as we learn. We’ve all adapted so much since early 2020 and we are deeply committed to a more flexible environment.

As we head into the holiday season, I have been reflecting on my gratitude for each and every one of you. Thank you all for your passion, your perseverance, and your phenomenal work this year and always. I can’t wait to see you soon.

Tim