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“Healthbook” app managing fitness and health data may come preinstalled with iOS 8, integrate with iWatch — iWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking — Apple has its sights set on another industry ripe for reinvention: the mobile healthcare and fitness world.
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Here's How Facebook Rewards Celebrities Who Post About the Super Bowl — If you're on Facebook this weekend you may see a bunch of athletes and celebrities talking about the Super Bowl. Some will be doing it because they're just like you. — And some will be doing it because Facebook is offering them incentives to do it.
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Siri Co-Creator Ponders the Future of the ‘Her’ Operating System — Siri, meet Scarlett. — Hollywood has always shown the way to the future. It's a little known fact that, for decades, the bigscreen inspired many forward-looking technologies long before their day.
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AT&T's new family plan: two lines sharing 10GB for $130 a month, $15 per additional line — AT&T Sweetens Offer for Family Plans — AT&T, the second largest American phone carrier, on Saturday said it would offer a cheaper phone plan for families with multiple devices.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xperia Z1 Compact exceeds predecessor with smaller, better display and unmatched battery life — Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review: when smaller is better — For the longest time, the prevailing trend with mobile phones was to take last year's handset and make it smaller.
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New iPhone app “Secret” lets you share confessions anonymously with your network of friends — With New Anonymous Social App Secret, the Merit Is in the Message — What if you could share anything you wanted to, with little worry of repercussion?
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Al Shabaab shuts out central and southern Somalia from internet — Kamau Mbote — Clients at a cyber cafe in Somalia: Reports indicate that Al Shabaab has shut off internet services in central and southern parts of the country. — Telecos operating in Al Shabaab-controlled areas …
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Twitter partners with 300 Entertainment to give ‘full access’ of its user data to the music industry — Hot on the heels of a deal with CNN and Dataminr to bring the benefits of its data to journalists, Twitter is focusing on unlocking the potential of its platform for the music industry.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
NFL deploys iBeacons at MetLife Stadium and Times Square to send ads and alerts to fans for Super Bowl — Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone — Want to see the Vince Lombardi Trophy that goes to the Super Bowl winner? Take a left in 15 feet. Looking to buy some Super Bowl merchandise?| Nikhil Basu Trivedi / Medium: |
Series A bifurcation: startups with momentum can raise $10-25M, those without raise much less — What's up with the Series A? — On the one hand, $10-25M rounds; on the other, a “Crunch” — A couple months ago, I was chatting with a first-time entrepreneur who had recently raised …
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Flipboard Mimics Magazines Further With A Shift To Structured Content, Revamped “Cover Stories” — Social magazine Flipboard is rethinking how it organizes content for readers. Today the company is revamping “Cover Stories,” the section within Flipboard that highlights the best and most popular content from across your subscriptions.
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ABC orders pilot for ‘Selfie,’ its latest attempt to turn a social media trend into a comedy — People always like to guess whether a new show will be a hit or miss — and newly-announced ABC pilot Selfie has the potential to be a huge miss. The show will be written by Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek …
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