Sussing out Weight Watchers’ iPhone app competition
David Kirchhoff, Weight Watchers’ president and CEO announced yesterday that Weight Watchers will soon submit an iPhone application to Apple in an effort to provide “convenience and information on...
View ArticleAetna to launch CarePass for mobile in 2013
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini kicked off the mHealth Summit this morning by announcing a launch date for the mobile implementation of their health data syncing platform CarePass, which will combine Aetna’s...
View ArticleLose It! weight loss app integrates with Nike+ FuelBand
Nike announced Friday the opening of a developer portal for the Nike+ API. At the same time, the company announced a partnership with popular calorie-tracking and weight loss app Lose It! Although...
View ArticleFree online weight loss community SparkPeople improves outcomes in...
A researcher at the University of Texas has published a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research looking at efficacy of a free online weight loss program. The study looked at 1,258 randomly...
View ArticleFitlinxx offers device through SparkPeople for direct-to-consumer play
Fitlinxx, the activity tracker hardware company, is partnering with health and wellness website SparkPeople to provide a branded version of its Pebble activity tracker for users of the site. This is...
View ArticleThree lessons for healthcare startups from AOL vet Steve Case
Steve Case, the head of investment group Revolution and former CEO of America Online, believes that prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley isn’t necessarily the smartest way to launch businesses. In a...
View ArticleFitLinxx bouyed by growing employer market, inks deal with Biggest Loser...
While it didn’t release any specific financial details, b2b activity tracker company FitLinxx recently announced it saw a 55 percent increase in revenues year-over-year. FitLinxx cited increased demand...
View ArticleSparkPeople’s app is free again as the weight loss company steps up its...
Online fitness and weight loss community SparkPeople has made its app Diet and Food Tracker (now known as SparkPeople Calorie Counter and Weight Loss) free once more. For about the past two years it...
View ArticleFitlinxx adds smartphone syncing to new Pebble+ tracker
Fitlinxx, the enterprise-focused activity tracker company, has released a new version of its Pebble tracker, which lengthens the battery life and adds smartphone syncing for the first time. The Pebble+...
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