{"id":51074,"date":"2026-02-23T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51074"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:46:06","slug":"danaher-to-buy-masimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/danaher-to-buy-masimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Danaher to Buy Masimo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/danaher-buy-masimo-99-billion-2026-02-17\/\">Sabrina Valle and Gnaneshwar Rajan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/danaher-buy-masimo-99-billion-2026-02-17\/\">\n<p>Danaher, a $150 billion U.S. company that makes tools used in developing and testing medicines, on Tuesday agreed to buy Masimo for $9.9 billion, expanding in patient-monitoring devices in a surprise move outside its main focus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/17\/danaher-to-buy-masimo-in-9point9-billion-deal-in-diagnostics-push.html\">CNBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/17\/danaher-to-buy-masimo-in-9point9-billion-deal-in-diagnostics-push.html\">\n<p>Masimo&rsquo;s non-invasive pulse oximeters will complement Danaher&rsquo;s invasive Radiometer blood analyzer devices.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Masimo recently transformed itself into a &ldquo;pure-play&rdquo; med-tech firm after selling its Sound United unit, which held audio brands Denon and Marantz, to Samsung&rsquo;s Harman last year for $350 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I wonder if this will affect the legal fight with Apple over Apple Watch.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/the-return-of-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch\/\">The Return of Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/masimo-v-apple\/\">Masimo v. Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Valle and Gnaneshwar Rajan: Danaher, a $150 billion U.S. company that makes tools used in developing and testing medicines, on Tuesday agreed to buy Masimo for $9.9 billion, expanding in patient-monitoring devices in a surprise move outside its main focus. CNBC: Masimo&rsquo;s non-invasive pulse oximeters will complement Danaher&rsquo;s invasive Radiometer blood analyzer devices. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-23T21:46:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"15a7e4e2-1763-4c13-b85f-5679d0b41208","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-23T21:46:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFafk4hdjTBO4X1Z50LQSCA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,992,101,2812],"class_list":["post-51074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-apple-watch","tag-business","tag-masimo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51075,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions\/51075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}