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Digital health rumor mill: Apple prepping new health device, Jawbone mulling...
The Apple rumor mill is rolling again, this time with reports of a new forthcoming health device. According to Apple Insider, via Taiwanese paper Economic Daily News, the new product, two years in the...
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DarioHealth’s US market doubles revenue, reaches 5K users for connected...
Three months after DarioHealthlaunched its smartphone-connected glucometer in the US, the company reports more than 100 percent increase in growth, bringing in $669,000 in revenue in the second quarter...
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Former Apple exec on how Apple Watch aesthetics hampered sensor development
When it was announced in 2014, the Apple Watch included only a limited array of health sensors -- heart rate and activity tracking capabilities mainly -- despite Apple hires and rumors that suggested...
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Jabra, TrainerMD piloting prescribable program featuring earbuds with health...
Jabra, maker of wireless sports headphones that offer in-ear coaching and fitness tracking with a companion app, has teamed up with online, physician-directed fitness and nutrition coaching program...
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Consumer health tech companies are moving increasingly into healthcare
More and more, direct-to-consumer wearables companies are moving into business-to-business healthcare markets. It's not exactly a surprising move -- the potential for consumer technology to encourage...
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13 digital health crowdfunding projects: connected CPAP, breathalyzers,...
It's been a few months since MobiHealthNews last put together a digital health crowdfunding roundup, so there are several ongoing Indiegogo and Kickstarter projects to peruse. Read on for our latest...
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Open-source mapping company Mapbox acquires passive fitness app-maker Human...
San Francisco-based Mapbox, an open-source mapping platform, has acquired fitness-tracking app Human, which allows users to track activity all day and aggregates the data anonymously to create...
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Nike+ adds Apple Watch-only tracking, new coaching and social features, in...
Nike has launched a major update to its Nike+ Running app, rebranding it as the Nike+Run Club. The main features the company is adding include personal coaching, new social features, and an upgrade to...
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Fitabase, Fitbit's longtime clinical research partner, hires Quantified Self...
Fitbit may have the data-collecting devices, but it’s the wearable company’s partnership with research platform Fitabase that turns that data into something beyond personal activity tracking. Over the...
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ITC judge clears Fitbit of stealing trade secrets from Jawbone
The International Trade Commission will officially not be blocking Fitbit's imports. Rival Jawbone asked the ITC to do just that a little over a year ago, filing parallel cases with the ITC to two...
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Nike+ update faces harsh backlash from users
When Nike CEO Mark Parker announced on the company's earnings call in June that they were working on a major update to the Nike+ app, he said it was in beta testing and "so far we've received very...
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Fitbit Flex 2, Charge 2 add swim tracking, new ways to use heart rate
Though rumors have been circulating for some time, Fitbit officially announced its new versions of the Fitbit Flex and Fitbit Charge devices yesterday. At the same time, the company announced new...
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Pebble updates health tracking features on app and device
Smartwatch company Pebble, which has had a renewed focus on health and fitness features since last May, released a major update to its app and firmware, once again focused on health features. The Verge...
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Declining user base shows Pokemon Go not immune to trend of health app attrition
Pokemon Go fever seems to be abating a bit as summer winds down. Already, the game that was once hailed as the most effective health app ever is on the verge of downslide.So the rising question for...
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Wearables market up 26 percent since last year, with Fitbit, Xiaomi and Apple...
The global wearables market is continuing to grow, with 22.5 million devices shipped in the second quarter of 2016 alone, according to a new tracking report by the International Data Corporation (IDC)....
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Apple Watch Series 2 is swimproof; has GPS, Nike partnership and Pokemon Go app
Apple's announcement day today focused a lot on the new iPhone 7, but the most exciting news for health and fitness fans was related to the Apple Watch series 2, which ups the ante for fitness tracking...
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Samsung smart belt spinoff Welt quickly funded on Kickstarter
At CES in January, Samsung showed off a concept for a smart belt called Welt (a portmanteau of wellness and belt). At the beginning of the summer, the company announced that the Welt team had spun off...
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ITC says Fitbit can try to block Jawbone from selling in US
Favor is once again on Fitbit’s side in the ongoing legal battle between the leading wearable company and its increasingly beleagured competitor Jawbone. The US International Trade Commission ruled...
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Study finds health coaching app Noom's weight loss outcomes comparable to...
People with prediabetes using health coaching app Noom achieved levels of success that are comparable to traditional diabetes prevention programs for weight loss and health management, a new study...
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Declining user base shows Pokemon Go not immune to trend of health app attrition
Pokemon Go fever seems to be abating a bit as summer winds down. Already, the game that was once hailed as the most effective health app ever is on the verge of downslide.So the rising question for...
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