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Lose It CEO talks Weight Watchers, Under Armour, and when ice cream can help
By Jonah Comstock | 01:02 pm | January 18, 2016
While Under Armour, Apple, and Weight Watchers, have all, to varying degrees, become more involved in the calorie-tracking mobile app space, Lose It, one of the original innovators, has been quietly chugging along, capping its funding at $7 million because, according to CEO Charles Teague, the company has been profitable since at least last March.
Roundup: Digital health devices that claim to sense food's calories
By Jonah Comstock | 07:02 am | November 30, 2015
Food tracking is one area where digital health still hasn't meaningfully surpassed the status quo.
Smartphone-connected food scanner gets $2M on Kickstarter, $4M from Khosla, others
By Jonah Comstock | 10:22 am | June 04, 2014
A new smartphone-connected device for measuring the nutritional content of food has raised $2.
Kickstarter wants you to crowdfund more things -- but still not medical devices
By Jonah Comstock | 07:40 am | June 04, 2014
Kickstarter has made a big change to its submission rules, opening the gates for a lot more projects in previously prohibited categories like cosmetics, pet supplies, and automotive products.