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How Jimmy Fallon Uses the Nike FuelBand (It's Naughty, of Course)
The fitness and gaming industries are getting more and more serious about gathering data about their customers. But that doesn’t mean comedian Jimmy Fallon isn’t going to poke fun at them. Moderating a...
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Getting Into (Data-Tracking) Gear With Nike+ FuelBand
Despite the fact that I’m a writer, which conjures up images of long days glued to the desk, I consider myself to be pretty active, and I try to maintain momentum by working out regularly. So I’ve been...
View ArticleAll Things Reviewed: Nike+ FuelBand and BodyMedia Armband on WSJ "Digits"
In case you missed the latest product review in our new All Things Reviewed section of this site: I joined The Wall Street Journal’s “Digits” show today to discuss the latest entrant into the...
View ArticleWearable Devices: How Geeky Glasses and Wristbands Will Move Mainstream
We’ve all seen the movies: Gadget-laden heroes from James Bond to Terminator to Iron Man have long relied on voice-controlled watches and heads-up display glasses to extend their powers. Now, those...
View ArticleE-Commerce Accelerating Due to Personalization, Pinterest and iPad
A sputtering economy isn’t slowing the growth of e-commerce. In fact, new data from comScore shows $44 billion in business now moving through U.S. e-commerce channels, up 17 percent from a year ago....
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One Bird to Rule Them All: Twitter Tweaks Its Branding Strategy
Throughout the company’s history, Twitter’s branding has consisted of a handful of icons, each distinct in its own way while remaining recognizably Twitter-esque. There’s the lowercase “t” symbol...
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Ignition's John Connors on Nike's FuelBand, Enterprise Software and Investing...
John Connors was Microsoft’s chief finance guy for five years, responsible for managing one of the largest tech company’s books. For the past seven years, however, he’s been contributing his fiscal...
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Path and Nike FuelBand Pair Up, Flaunting the Benefits of a Private API
Facebook and Twitter rose to prominence in part because they played so nicely with others. Yes, the sites were great products first. But they became even better platforms, opening their application...
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Alpha Brings Heart-Rate Tracking to Non-Clunky Wristwatch
Most heart-rate monitors — the ones that actually work — involve chest straps and clunky armbands or wristwatches to get the job done. Liz Dickinson thinks heart rate can be accurately measured with a...
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Facebook's Newest Advertiser: Facebook
The Facebook press blitz continues: After Sheryl Sandberg and her team took the first half of the week at the Advertising Week convention in New York, they’ve handed off to Mark Zuckerberg, who is on...
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Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance Armstrong
In the midst of last week’s earnings call, after the company had released strong results, Demand Media CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt made an unusual declaration about its once-tight...
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A Health Monitor That Gets You Up and Moving
[ See post to watch video ] Here come the holidays—and with them the extra pounds from family feasts, eggnog and gingerbread. Rather than wait to make a New Year’s resolution to get in shape, one...
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Apple Can't Afford Buyer's Remorse With Next Retail Hire
John Browett, the Dixons exec tapped to oversee Apple’s retail operations last January, was Tim Cook’s first big hire after taking up the CEO reins at the company. Nine months later, he would be among...
View ArticleHow Nike Revives a Fallen Sports Star
Lance Armstrong said that the day that his doping caught up to him was a “a $75 million day,” because he lost the support of lucrative sponsors like Nike. But Nike never bailed on Tiger Woods, and now...
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Ex-Zynga Manager Lo Toney Appointed CEO of Khosla's LearnStreet
Laurence “Lo” Toney has been named CEO of LearnStreet, the Palo Alto-based startup that’s helping aspiring computer scientists learn how to code online. Toney is one of the many Zynga employees who...
View ArticleMyspace Hires Two VPs to Prep for Relaunch
Myspace, the struggling website that fueled the first major wave of the social Internet, announced Monday that it had hired two new vice presidents to prepare the company for its major relaunch this...
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What Did You Expect the Austrian Founder of a Fitness App Startup to Be Like?
Florian Gschwandtner is the CEO of Runtastic, an Austrian fitness app maker. He has an accent like Ahhnold, impossibly high cheekbones, and when he demos his Runtastic account I should point out that...
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Nike+ Startups Turn Physical Activity Into Motivational Currency
Okay, great, you have a bracelet on your wrist that tells you how many steps you took today. What next? Shutterstock/Scott Maxwell/LuMaxArt Devices like Nike’s FuelBand and apps like the Nike+ run...
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Exclusive: Huang Brothers' Next Project, Blue Goji, Will Layer Games on Top...
Guitar Hero co-inventors Kai and Charles Huang have already convinced millions of gamers that, with a little button-mashing, they could be rock stars, if only for a few minutes. Their latest project is...
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Apple Hires Nike FuelBand Guru Jay Blahnik
Apple CEO Tim Cook shows off his Nike FuelBand at D11Fitness industry consultant Jay Blahnik, who played a key role in the development of Nike’s FuelBand, has taken a job at Apple. Sources familiar...
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Apple Launches iPhone 5s/5c, to Go on Sale September 20
Well, it’s finally that time again. While there is seemingly a new Android phone launch every week, Apple updates the iPhone but once a year. That leads to much anticipation. But it also puts the...
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Big Data and the Soles of Your Shoes
Image copyright BONNINSTUDIOThere has been significant ink killed in the name of Big Data over the last few years. Much of that slaughter is justified; Big Data represents a massive generational shift...
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Ditch the Wristbands: For Next Generation of Wearables, Dumb Clothes Get Smart
As much excitement as there may be about wearable sensors, most of the activity tracking devices today are pretty lame. That’s because they’re often restricted to a certain body part — usually the...
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Seven Questions for Evernote CEO Phil Libin
Having crossed the threshold of 50 million users, cloud software company Evernote has in the last few months reached into a fundamentally different realm: Selling physical goods. It started simply...
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Ex-HTC Exec Launches Zero, a Startup Aiming to Keep That Fitbit or FuelBand...
Fitness bands like the Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand and various models from Fitbit, are selling pretty well. The challenge, though, is that many people use them for a month or two, before tossing them...
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