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LinkedIn's New App Predicts What You Need To Know Before A Meeting

The professional network is using ‘anticipatory computing’ techniques and a smart calendar integration to save us having to think. Could Facebook do the same thing?

PayPal's Braintree Moves To Be The Cash Register For Every App

The e-payments firm is giving app new easier tools to put credit-card, PayPal buttons and eventually Bitcoin buttons in their apps.

5 Things To Know About Siri And Google Now's Growing Intelligence

As they become more sophisticated, digital personal assistants are mastering the art of ‘implicit personalization.’ Here's how it works.

Why Google's Waze Is Trading User Data With Local Governments

Cities are lining up for behind-the-scenes access to apps like Waze, Moovit and Strava, to track how people are moving.

Facebook's Emotion Study Was All About Keeping Us Addicted To Facebook

A $175 billion company doesn’t tinker with our behavior for science alone.

Bye-Bye, Words: An Emoji-Only Social App Is Coming

Text is overrated. So Matt Gray and Tom Scott are working on an app that will only let you communicate via the tiny icons known as emojis.

For Google Fit, Your Health Data Could Be Lucrative

Ads related to health and medication are among the most profitable around, and the world’s biggest advertiser is almost certainly looking at ways to take advantage of that.

Google Unveils Its Hub For Health Tracking, Google Fit

The company confirms it will begin managing data collected by apps and sensors on it’s own platform, to 'centralize everything.'

ZocDoc Is Raising $150 Million At $1.6 Billion Valuation As Digital Health Heats Up

Funding documents show the medical booking platform’s value has almost doubled in the last three years amid a race by Google, Apple and Samsung to become aggregators of health data.

Google's Nest Moves To Become Master Of The Smart Home, By Talking To Other Devices

The smart thermostat maker moves to become a hub that talks to lights, cars, phones and Google itself, allowing them all to share data with one another and ‘personalize’ the home.