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Starkey is a privately held, global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Founded by Bill Austin in 1967, Starkey is known for its innovative design, development and ...

Bluetooth hearing aids help solve two of the more annoying everyday challenges of living with hearing loss: watching TV and talking on the phone. When you experience hearing loss, clearly hearing ...

The Eden Prairie-based Starkey hearing-aid maker today revealed a new model that incorporates health monitoring, language translating, voice queries, tap controls and other features commonly offered ...

Bimodal hearing, combining a cochlear implant in one ear with a hearing aid on the other, offers powerful benefits when both technologies work seamlessly together. DualSync technology, developed ...

A year and a half ago, when Starkey approached Stuart Karten about redesigning their hearing aids, they had a fairly serious, albeit superficial problem: Given that almost all their competitors are ...

There are plenty of issues associated with hearing loss, but modern technology aims to make it easier for the hearing impaired. Hearing aids have changed the lives of many people who were either born ...

Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering tech policy, EU tech, mobile and the digital divide. She previously covered mobile as a senior reporter at CNET and also ...