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By Brian Dolan | 08:27 am | August 24, 2015
Amsterdam-based dermatology app company SkinVision has raised $3.
By Jonah Comstock | 01:53 pm | August 21, 2015
Google Flu Trends, as a website open to the general public, has shut down.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:21 am | August 20, 2015
Grand Rounds, a company that works with consumers and employers to match patients with specialist doctors and helps provide second opinions, has raised $55 million in third round funding from a new, undisclosed global mutual fund investor as well as existing investors Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman.
By Brian Dolan | 09:02 am | August 20, 2015
Next week Ralph Lauren will start selling a line of shirts, called PoloTech, which have embedded fitness tracking sensors, thanks to a partnership with OMsignal announced last year.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:35 am | August 20, 2015
Walgreens has redesigned its app for the first time in four years and, at the same time, released some interesting data about app usage stats.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:11 am | August 19, 2015
Owlet Baby Care, a tech startup developing smart socks for monitoring infants' vital signs, raised $6 million in venture funding and another $1 million in the form of an NIH Grant.
By Aditi Pai | 04:30 am | August 19, 2015
Boulder, Colorado-based Kindara, which offers fertility tracking tools, has raised $5.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:30 am | August 18, 2015
In a rare interview with Outside Magazine, Jay Blahnik, Apple's director of fitness for health technologies, spoke about the Apple Watch's impact on users' fitness since it launched, the importance of the Stand ring, and how integration with third-party apps will change the game.
By Aditi Pai | 06:00 am | August 18, 2015
Misfit, maker of the Shine and Flash activity trackers, has partnered with swimwear manufacturer Speedo and announced a new activity tracking device focused on monitoring swimming, called Speedo Shine.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:51 am | August 17, 2015
Israeli medical device company Integrity Applications has begun the process with the FDA to bring its noninvasive glucose monitoring device, GlucoTrack, to the United States.