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| 11.05.2024 | The Fall of Google Fit: A Look at the Uncertain Future | The demise of Google Fit APIs signals a shift in the fitness tech landscape, leaving users and developers in limbo. Google's decision to shut down the APIs by June 2025 has raised questions about the app's future and the impact on health an... |
| 07.05.2024 | APIs do Google Fit serão encerradas e futuro do app é incerto | Google abandonou app lançado em 2014 (Imagem: Vitor Pádua / Tecnoblog)
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O Google anunciou que encerrará as APIs do Google Fit em junho de 2025. Até lá, desenvolvedores que us... |
| 06.05.2024 | Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices | Enlarge / Google Fit seems like it's on the way out.
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Google is killing off the Google Fit APIs. The platform originally existed to sync health data from third-party fitness devices to your Google accou... |
| 03.01.2024 | Best Running Apps for Beginners and Pros in 2024 | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 03 January 2024, 12:01 pm |
| 03.12.2021 | Startups at the forefront of the on-demand, at-home fitness craze | VCs make big bets on innovators, such as Tonal, ClassPass, Peerfit, Freeletics, Silofit, and FORTË
According to the CDC, only one in four US adults and only one in five high school students meet the recommended physical activity guidelines.... |
| 19.07.2021 | Спорт высоких технологий: как спорттех трансформирует современное ТВ | Директор по цифровому развитию «Матч ТВ» Александр Фролов — о том, как технологии влияют на восприятие спортивного контента и какие из них уже внедрены на канале.
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| 23.02.2018 | Pedaling pictures: The art and science of GPS doodling | reader comments 23 with 22 posters participating
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| 08.12.2016 | Here Are the Winners for 50 on Fire 2016 | The suspense is killing you, right? After months of mounting excitement, we announced this year's winners of our 50 on Fire awards at our annual blowout celebration on Wednesday night. Our 50 winners comprise individuals and organizations p... |
| 05.12.2016 | Runkeeper’s Apple Watch app gains GPS support so you can leave your iPhone at home | GPS fitness-tracking company Runkeeper can finally fully untether itself from smartphones: It’s updating its Apple Watch app to support the wearable’s built-in GPS smarts.
You may remember that the Asics-owned company launched an all-new Ap... |
| 26.07.2016 | Runkeeper’s Running Groups is a virtual running club for you and your buddies | RunKeeper is introducing a new group running feature today, as the GPS-fitness tracking company looks to encourage uptake through greater social engagement.
Available on Android and iOS, Runkeeper Running Groups can consist of up to 25 peop... |
| 26.07.2016 | Runkeeper’s Running Groups is a virtual running club for you and your buddies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
RunKeeper is introducing a new group running feature today, as the GPS-fitness tracking company looks to encourage uptake through great... |
| 17.05.2016 | RunKeeper acknowledges location data leak to ad service, pushes updates | RunKeeper reader comments 34 with 29 posters participating
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RunKeeper announced Tuesday that it had found a bug in its Android code that resulted in the leaking of users’ lo... |
| 13.02.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 2/13/16 | Time acquired Viant; YouTube bought BandPage; Microsoft purchased Groove
Microsoft acquired Groove, a music service that powers music recommendations and generates personalized playlists using machine-learning. No financial terms of the dea... |
| 12.02.2016 | Fitness App Runkeeper To Be Acquired By Running Shoe Maker ASICS | Runkeeper is set to become the latest fitness startup to be acquired by a workout gear company. Jason Jacobs, the startup’s co-founder and chief executive officer, announced today that his company has entered into a definitive agreement to ... |
| 12.02.2016 | RunKeeper acquired by sportswear giant Asics | Popular GPS fitness-tracking company RunKeeper has been acquired by Japanese sportswear giant Asics.
RunKeeper is one of a number of fitness platforms that have been picked up by sports clothing makers in recent times. Indeed, today’s news ... |
| 12.02.2016 | Asics to Acquire FitnessKeeper | Japanese sporting manufacturer Asics Corporation is to acquire 100% of FitnessKeeper, Inc., the Boston, MA-based operator of the fitness tracking app Runkeeper.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Established in 2008 and led by Jason ... |
| 12.02.2016 | RunKeeper acquired by sportswear giant Asics | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular GPS fitness-tracking company RunKeeper has been acquired by Japanese sportswear giant Asics.
RunKeeper is one of a number of fi... |
| 12.02.2016 | Asics Buys Runkeeper as Apps & Athletic Gear Continue to Merge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2/12/16, 3:32 p.m., to include deal price and details from Asics’s press release.] Japanese shoemaker Asics just acquired one of Boston’s best-known consumer tech com... |
| 21.11.2015 | The Apple Watch will be a mainstream device — here’s how we know | While seemingly every third person in the tech early adopter crowd is wearing an Apple Watch these days, there is still a lot of skepticism about whether it truly can be a mainstream device. People point to the $349 starting price tag, diff... |
| 21.11.2015 | The Apple Watch will be a mainstream device — here’s how we know | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While seemingly every third person in the tech early adopter crowd is wearing an Apple Watch these days, there is still a lot of skepti... |
| 23.10.2015 | Runkeeper Apple Watch App Finally Lets You Track Your Runs Without Your Phone, But With A Catch | Fritz Gleyo, Tech Times 23 October 2015, 01:10 am
Apple has recently released watchOS 2, which promises to have apps running natively. Taking advantage of this feature, Runkeeper, a multiplatform fitness tracking app, was rebuilt around the... |
| 22.10.2015 | Runkeeper finally lets you leave your iPhone at home, thanks to its latest Apple Watch update | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular GPS fitness-tracking company Runkeeper has launched an all-new Apple Watch app, “rebuilt from the ground up,” said founder and ... |
| 22.09.2015 | Chef Nightly CEO’s Recipe For Building Boston Consumer Tech Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Successfully growing a consumer tech company can be a tall order, given the volume of users it usually requires to achieve relevance.
But Boston serial entrepreneur Michael Sh... |
| 31.08.2015 | Tep Is An Adorable Fitness Tracking App That Works Like A Tamagotchi | Remember the Tamagotchi? Those little monsters were great. A new iOS app called Tep created a Tamagotchi-like app for your phone to help you stay motivated when it comes to working out. Move around if you want to feed your giraffe.
In many ... |
| 17.08.2015 | Mapbox adds running and cycling routes from Runkeeper to its mapping software | Mapbox has signed a partnership with Runkeeper, in a move that will leverage the route data traveled by runners and cyclists to create a more comprehensive mapping product. Anonymized and aggregated routes publicly shared by Runkeeper will ... |
| 05.08.2015 | Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M | Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name, in a deal worth €220 million ($239 million).
Founded out of Austria in 2009, Runtastic has built a soli... |
| 05.08.2015 | Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name... |
| 23.07.2015 | Runkeeper drops the dude from its logo because more than half its new users are women | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Runkeeper‘s got a new logo, and with it the company drops that hyper-fit dude icon and those Web 2.0 bubble letters.
The new design is ... |
| 23.07.2015 | Runkeeper drops the dude from its logo because more than half its new users are women | Runkeeper‘s got a new logo, and with it the company drops that hyper-fit dude icon and those Web 2.0 bubble letters.
The new design is part of a larger rebrand for the mobile fitness app centered around this tagline: “Everyone. Every Run.” ... |
| 04.06.2015 | The best 5 running apps | While you certainly don’t need technology to get the blood pumping, there are a huge number of fitness apps out there that can help encourage and focus your exercise regime.
If you do need some help getting your running shoes on, then we’ve... |
| 06.04.2015 | Boston’s Chef Nightly Helps Pick Dinner, and Delivers It Too | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s easier than ever to have premade food delivered to your doorstep, with any number of apps from Seamless to Favor to Instacart offering to bring customers almost anything ... |
| 29.01.2015 | RunKeeper and Spotify team up to let you play your music without switching apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Perennially popular fitness-tracking app RunKeeper is introducing support for Spotify today, meaning runners, walkers, and cyclists can... |
| 29.01.2015 | RunKeeper and Spotify team up to let you play your music without switching apps | Perennially popular fitness-tracking app RunKeeper is introducing support for Spotify today, meaning runners, walkers, and cyclists can listen to tunes from the music-streaming service while they use the app.
RunKeeper says Spotify integrat... |
| 19.12.2014 | Runkeeper adds phone-free GPS and headphone heart rate monitor support | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Smartwatch and smartwatch app makers are waking up to the fact that runners don’t want to lug their phones around while they work out.
... |
| 19.12.2014 | Runkeeper adds phone-free GPS and headphone heart rate monitor support | Smartwatch and smartwatch app makers are waking up to the fact that runners don’t want to lug their phones around while they work out.
The well-loved fitness app RunKeeper is announcing today a new version of its app, which will now run on ... |
| 24.10.2014 | 4 app monetization strategies for free apps | This sponsored post is produced by Localytics.
There are over a million apps currently in the App Store, and an overwhelming majority of them are free. What does this mean for your app monetization plan? Going after revenue with a paid app ... |
| 09.09.2014 | RunKeeper Sees Apple Health Moves as “Both Scary and Exciting” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re an independent mobile developer, big Apple product announcements are more than just a passing curiosity—entire companies can be dramatically boosted or quickly cripp... |
| 06.09.2014 | Mobile App-Embedded Wearables is the Future of Technology | Our world is slowly embracing wearable-tech. From healthcare industries to education and entertainment, wearable is the need of the hour. Gone are the days when Google Glass ruled the roost. Now, there is a whole range of smart wearables av... |
| 17.08.2014 | Nudge Is A Dashboard For All Your Fitness Wearables And Apps | Despite not being a particularly fitness-obsessed person, I’ve fallen for the fitness tracking trend. My main fitness tracker is a Jawbone UP24, but I also keep Moves iOS app turned on and occasionally use RunKeeper.
The hassle of keeping o... |
| 14.08.2014 | The Tech Behind 50 Cent’s New SMS Audio Fitness Tracking Earbuds | 50 Cent’s SMS Audio is holding an event in NYC tonight, but the cat’s out of the bag: the product to be unveiled is a new fitness tracking in-ear headset, which is entirely Intel inside – the technology used was originally developed by Indi... |
| 23.07.2014 | Better Know A Barcelona Startup: Wefitter (@WeFitter) | Can someone remind me why I go through the pain of pushing myself to exercise every night? I’m sure there was something more to it than burning calories and de-stressing to avoid mid-day meltdowns. Oh that’s it; I have thousands of Nike fue... |
| 28.05.2014 | Spark Capital Raising Growth Fund, Targeting $375M | Local venture firm Spark Capital is planning to raise a growth fund worth $375 million.
The Back Bay VC, most recently touted for its key investments in now-public Twitter and Oculus VR, filed its plans with the Securities & Exchange Co... |
| 20.04.2014 | In Digital Health, Does Nike Have A Path To Victory After Fuelband? | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
This past week, conflicting reports about Nike leaked, suggestin... |
| 17.04.2014 | Watch Out Moves And Human — Now RunKeeper Releases A Movement App | By now may are familiar with the smartphone apps that track your movements via the accelerometer. There are multiple pedometers on all the apps stores for instance. But a more intriguing sector has emerged in the shape of apps like Human an... |
| 17.04.2014 | RunKeeper steps into all-day health tracking with its new Breeze app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’re interested in dabbling in health tracking, but aren’t ready to commit to a dedicated fitness gadget, RunKeeper’s newest app c... |
| 17.04.2014 | RunKeeper steps into all-day health tracking with its new Breeze app | If you’re interested in dabbling in health tracking, but aren’t ready to commit to a dedicated fitness gadget, RunKeeper’s newest app could be just what you need.
The free Breeze app, launching on the iPhone 5S today, tracks your steps all ... |
| 04.04.2014 | Human Adds M7 Support And A Daily Timeline To Its Fitness App | Health tracking app Human just added a few new features to its latest update. First, the app now supports Apple’s M7 fitness chipset if you have an iPhone 5s, while retaining compatibility with iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The company also added... |
| 27.03.2014 | Runtastic gets a design overhaul to catch up to Runkeeper | Runtastic today relaunched its self-titled fitness app after passing 70 million downloads across all of its apps.
The new Runtastic app features a complete redesign, bringing it more in-line with Apple’s iOS 7 aesthetic. The app’s last iter... |
| 27.03.2014 | Runtastic gets a design overhaul to catch up to Runkeeper | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Runtastic today relaunched its self-titled fitness app after passing 70 million downloads across all of its apps.
The new Runtastic app... |
| 21.03.2014 | RunKeeper Not Spooked by New Apple, Google Health Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re an independent tech company based on mobile health and fitness data, this might have been a week that made you nervous.
With back-to-back leaks and announcements, th... |
| 30.01.2014 | Will the Next Great Boston Tech Company Please Stand Up? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here we are in early 2014, and it feels like a zeitgeist-y moment for the Boston tech scene. So I wanted to weigh in and connect a few dots around town—and get people thinking... |
| 03.12.2013 | Steve Case’s Revolution Growth Invests $22 Million In Local, Organic Salad Chain Sweetgreen | Local, organic salad chain Sweetgreen has attracted $22 million in funding from Revolution Growth, the investment fund founded by Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, and Donn Davis. Along with the funding, Case will join the board and advise Sweetgree... |
| 14.11.2013 | Workout apps that keep you fit when traveling | This post is brought to you by Sheraton. Click here to explore Sheraton Club. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
Staying fit on the road can be a serious challenge for business travelers. Between the ... |
| 14.11.2013 | Workout apps that keep you fit when traveling | RunKeeper
Running is a great way to explore new surroundings, and RunKeeper uses your phone’s GPS to track those runs. This smartphone app keeps tabs on your speed, pace, calories burned, and other information. When you’re done, it uploads ... |
| 07.11.2013 | Running In Circles: I Can’t Pick The Right Running App | ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.
Almost every morning, as I set out to run intervals on San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill, I go through an absurd ritual: I pop open my overstu... |
| 06.11.2013 | Pebble To Developers: Get Ready To Rock With New Wearable Tech Tools | When the Pebble smartwatch hit the market earlier this year, it hewed to a “simple is best” philosophy, offering only a limited set of features. But the company also pledged to help others develop their own creative uses for the gadget, and... |
| 05.11.2013 | ShapeUp Raises $7.5 Million to Expand Corporate Wellness Platform | Providence, RI-based ShapeUp announced on Tuesday it has raised $7.5 million in funding from Cue Ball Capital, Excel Venture Management and Silicon Valley Bank, bringing the company's total funding to $16.5 million. The latest investment wi... |
| 04.09.2013 | Galaxy Gear Integrates Fitness Apps, Competes With Trackers | The fitness applications available on today’s announced Galaxy Gear can turn the smartwatch into a fitness tracker.
See also With Its Galaxy Gear Smartwatch, Samsung Formally Enters The ‘Arm Race’
The Galaxy Gear, a smartwatch that connects... |
| 04.09.2013 | Boston Roundup: RunKeeper, Arbor Networks, Datto, General Catalyst, Baker | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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Startup partnerships, acquisition deals, fundraising, and little bit of innovation-sector politics to catch up on:
—RunKeeper is popping up on another smartwat... |
| 26.06.2013 | Boston Roundup: Rapid Micro Bio, Athenahealth, RunKeeper, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2:30 pm]
A dose of deals, legal, and hiring news to liven up the week:
—Rapid Micro Biosystems, a supplier of quality-control testing equipment for the pharmaceutical... |
| 20.06.2013 | 10 Highlights From XSITE 2013: Akamai, Blackjack, Crashlytics, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Digging out from our fifth annual XSITE innovation conference at Babson College yesterday…huge thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and hosts for an inspiring d... |
| 14.05.2013 | RunKeeper overhauls its website | If you happen to be a runner then you have a plethora of choices these days for tracking every bit of workout information that you could possibly have wanted to know, and likely some you did not. There are websites, mobile apps and even wat... |
| 07.05.2013 | RunKeeper For Pebble Arrives, Bringing Run, Walk And Bike Ride Progress Tracking To The Smart Watch | So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks the much-anticipated debut of early marquee partner RunKeeper. RunKeeper was an earl... |
| 18.01.2013 | Trying (and failing) to out-run my friends: Hands-on with RunKeeper 3 for iPhone | The new features on RunKeeper 3 include an easy-to-read "Leaderboard," training plans, and more.
RunKeeper reader comments 46 with 39 posters participating
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| 02.01.2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| 22.10.2012 | 5 Startups to Watch: RunKeeper, Paydiant, PeerTransfer, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re looking to get your head into the Boston tech scene, this is a pretty good week to start. Today we’re watching a number of startups making noise and helping put Bost... |
| 27.09.2012 | With Fitbit And RunKeeper Data, Notch Offers A Creative Way To Visualize Your Health | It’s a good time to be a healthy geek — and to start becoming one. Of late, we’ve seen an exponential increase in digital health data, thanks to growing popularity of a new generation of smart, wearable devices that help us track and stay o... |
| 17.09.2012 | Bijan Sabet on disrupting the gatekeepers, and mobile | Spark Capital Partner talks about what areas he likes to invest in
I recently sat down with Bijan Sabet, a partner at Spark Capital, an early-stage VC firm, which has invested in high-profile startups, such as Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr... |
| 10.05.2012 | Who Is Boston’s Hottest Startup? [Poll] | As we prepare to kick off our monthly speaker series Tech Cocktail Sessions in Boston next week (register here), we have been getting a lot of questions about the Boston area startup scene. With some of the top educational establishments in... |
| 02.05.2012 | Pebble Nabs Its First Software Partner Two Weeks Before Its Kickstarter Campaign Even Ends | Mr. Migicovsky
The Pebble e-paper watch still has 16 days of funding left to go, but today the team already announced its first partnership with run tracking software startup Run Keeper. Because between cycle tracking, running and golf rang... |
| 02.05.2012 | Runkeeper is Pebble smartwatch’s first app partner, with integration at launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Pebble smartwatch has been a runaway success story for Kickstarter’s crowdfunding model, with almost $8 million pledged for the pro... |
| 02.05.2012 | Runkeeper is Pebble smartwatch’s first app partner, with integration at launch | The Pebble smartwatch has been a runaway success story for Kickstarter’s crowdfunding model, with almost $8 million pledged for the project so far. Now Runkeeper, a popular app for measuring and tracking your fitness, is joining in on the f... |
| 17.04.2012 | Top 6 Mobile Apps for the Fitness Junkie | Trees are spouting leaves, flowers are sprouting where you would not ordinarily expect flowers, and the mornings and evenings are warm enough to get outdoors. Time to put on those running shoes, grab that bike or just go for a stroll. It is... |
| 23.03.2012 | RunKeeper Co-Founder And COO Michael Sheeley Exits Company | Michael Sheeley, the co-founder of super popular health and fitness analytics app RunKeeper, stepped down from his role as COO and Chief Product Officer at the company this week. He announced his departure in a post on his personal blog Thu... |
| 14.03.2012 | 5 Things to Watch at Mobile Madness: Mobile Mafia, Facebook’s Future, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Mobile Madness is here at last. Xconomy’s fourth annual mobile conference is set for today at 1 pm, at Microsoft NERD in Kendall Square, Cambridge. The event is sold out with ... |
| 12.03.2012 | How to Mentor So That It Means Something | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s something magical happening in Boston right now, and it’s going to make history. Like many startup scenes, Boston’s is truly exploding, vibrant with passionate founder... |
| 01.03.2012 | (Founder Stories) RunKeeper: Jacobs’ Strategy For Raising Capital | Jason Jacobs is the co-founder and CEO of RunKeeper, one of the initial 200 apps sold in the iPhone app store. The app allows users to record their jogging distances and times, and in partnership with other fitness focused apps/devices, man... |
| 05.01.2012 | Eight technologies for a healthier 2012 | Welcome to 2012 and a new list of New Year’s resolutions — a list that likely includes some variation on adopting a healthier lifestyle. Thanks to the acceleration of technology, fulfilling your resolutions this time around may be easier th... |
| 04.01.2012 | Android Market’s “Featured Apps” Seeing Explosive Download Numbers | Getting featured in the Android Market is starting to have a meaningful impact for mobile app developers. According to the recent news from fitness app maker RunKeeper, the company saw a 637% increase in downloads since November after just ... |
| 23.11.2011 | The RunKeeper Roadmap: Building A Successful Startup Through Community and Data | Boston-based health and fitness application RunKeeper made big news on Monday with $10 million in funding from a variety of venture capital companies. RunKeeper needs no introduction: it was one of the first health apps in the Apple App Sto... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper Raises $10M in Funding | RunKeeper, a Boston, MA-based provider of a health and fitness platform, has raised an additional $10m in funding.
The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investor OATV, and new investor Revolution Ventures.
Led... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper scores $10M round to expand its fitness platform | RunKeeper, a small startup that makes a run- and workout-tracking platform, has raised an impressive $10 million second round of funding.
The money will give the company a shot at its greatest ambition: Becoming a widely-used platform for m... |
| 21.11.2011 | FitnessKeeper Inks $10M Investment to Develop “Consumer Health Platform” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
FitnessKeeper, the Boston-based startup known for its RunKeeper mobile app, is announcing today that it has pulled in a $10 million funding round, led by new investor Spark Ca... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper scores $10M round to expand its fitness platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
RunKeeper, a small startup that makes a run- and workout-tracking platform, has raised an impressive $10 million second round of fundin... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper Raises $10 Million From Spark Capital, Steve Case, And OATV | The race is on to create a new class of consumer-driven health companies. One of the most popular health and fitness apps on the iPhone, RunKeeper, is started tackling by making it easy for people to measure their exercise, but now it is bu... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper snags $10M to build a better activity app | Spark Capital, OATV, Revolution back activity tracking, sharing platform with 6.5M+ usership
Applications that help users track and share their daily activity are a growing and popular market and one of the major players in the scene announ... |
| 26.10.2011 | Running with Nike+: putting the 2011 iPod nano to the test | reader comments 50 with 36 posters participating, including story author
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Apple's iPod line didn't get much in the way of updates this year for the first time in roughly a d... |
| 15.08.2011 | Runkeeper’s Health & Fitness Data Platform Opens to Developers | Runkeeper, one of the most popular new apps for tracking exercise data, this morning launched its ambitious Health Graph API wide open to the public. The platform for integrating apps and hardware with the fitness data tracking service had ... |
| 22.07.2011 | Startup Spotlight: Earn rewards for exercising with Earndit | Andres Moran
Sometimes it can be a little tough to motivate yourself to go for a jog, paddle or bike ride. That’s where Earndit steps in. The 16-month-old startup, led by Harry Kautzman II and Andres Moran, integrates with exercising applic... |
| 26.06.2011 | RunKeeper Adds New Integration To Its Health Graph In Hopes Of Building 'The Facebook Of Fitness' | You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to RunKeeper, this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, for those unfamiliar, was founded three years ... |
| 24.06.2011 | Google Health: Why It’s Ending & What It Means | Google’s quest to organize the world’s information will no longer include one of society’s most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever and ... |
| 08.06.2011 | Becoming A Platform: How RunKeeper Continues To Keep Competitors At Bay | Last year, we wrote about the very interesting case of RunKeeper, a small startup, which initially focused on software for iPhones for people to track their running information, and how it successfully outran Nike and other big sporting goo... |
| 06.06.2011 | Runtastic crosses 2 million downloads and hits profitability | Sports tracking platform Runtastic has announced that it’s crossed the 2 million download mark for its mobile apps, while claiming 400,000 monthly active users in Europe. The Austrian company says that it is now also cashflow positive.
Base... |
| 11.05.2011 | Do You Really Need an Incubator? Join the Debate at XSITE on June 16 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Although nobody seems to like the term “incubator”—mostly because of failures from the dot-com era—it’s clear that mentorship and accelerator programs like Y Combinator, TechS... |
| 26.04.2011 | Runens Social Running App Will Let You Train With Friends, Strangers | As we all know, long distance runners are lonely. You’re out there on your own, feet hitting the pavement, strange birds pecking at your hair as you scramble up and down alien streets at dawn or dusk. It’s good to have friends out there.
Th... |
| 06.04.2011 | Can The Internet Make You Healthier? | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Jason Jacobs (@jjacobs22), the co-founder & CEO of RunKeeper, a mobile fitness platform for runners and other fitness enthusiasts.
People are leading busier lives than ever before – working ... |
| 21.02.2011 | TAT co-founder on how technology turns us all into replicants | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hampus Jakobsson is no Luddite. As a co-founder of interface design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), which was acquired last year by R... |
| 21.02.2011 | TAT co-founder on how technology turns us all into replicants | Hampus Jakobsson is no Luddite. As a co-founder of interface design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), which was acquired last year by RIM, he has worked on some of the most cutting-edge, mobile interface technology. Yet he says that technol... |
| 26.01.2011 | Top Paid iPhone App Goes Free Forever: RunKeeper is All About the Platform | Formerly priced at $9.99, fitness-tracker RunKeeper was one of the first 200 apps in the iTunes app store and became one of the store’s top sellers. After a month of free downloads, the company announced today that the product will remain f... |
| 04.01.2011 | Healthy Apps and Tools To Keep Your Resolutions On Track | 2011 is officially here! And with the dawn of a new year comes new resolutions, usually for more happiness and better health. Technology can help with both. Getting new gadgets makes you happy and using them can actually help to keep you he... |
