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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
“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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Thanks:@justinkahnmusic| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Once phones collect health data, API access for authorized third parties will change the game — iOS8, Health Data, and Open Data — News is leaking out of Apple that iOS8's primary feature will be health and fitness data. Rumors are that there will be a new app called Healthbook …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Releasing Ads Early Pays Off For Super Bowl Advertisers, According To Visible Measures — If you're watching the Super Bowl today, some of those brand new ads may feel awfully familiar — a growing number of them are being released online ahead of time, either in their entirety or as a partial teaser.
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| Dag Kittlaus / Variety: |
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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| 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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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
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.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
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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| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
| Kamau Mbote / CIO East Africa: |
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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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
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.| 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 …
| 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?| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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