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Google adds a new health hub and sleep tracking metrics to its Fit mobile apps

The Verge

Google has announced an update to its Fit mobile apps that will introduce a new centralized home screen of health-related information and more sleep tracking data. Google says you’ll also be able to send stats, routes, and photos from your Google Fit workout journal entries via social media or messaging apps. Image: Google.

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The new class of CEOs at Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

The Verge

Over the past decade, the leaders of Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T oversaw a shift from simplistic feature phones into the era of smartphones and streaming. Unlimited data plans came, went, and came again, and the carriers eventually sought to carve out their own stake in content and media, to varying degrees of success.

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Quibi reportedly in talks to sell its shows to Roku

The Verge

Failed mobile-first streaming service Quibi is in advanced discussions to sell the rights to its content library to Roku, according to The Wall Street Journal. Disclosure: Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge ’s parent company. Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge.

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Quibi is shutting down

The Verge

Quibi — the shortform mobile-focused streaming service — is shutting down after just over six months of operation, making it one of the shortest-lived streaming services to date, according to The Wall Street Journal. Disclosure: Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge ’s parent company.

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Maximizing the Potential of Digital Publishing Platforms

Kitaboo

The potential of Digital Publishing Platforms encompasses content quality and relevance, user experience and design, SEO and analytics, social media and email, monetization and diversification, and community and collaboration. Choose a platform that integrates well with social media, analytics, or e-commerce platforms.

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Is Quibi done for?

The Verge

Shortly after publication, The Wall Streets Journal reports Quibi is shutting down for good. The Wall Street Journal followed that up with a report that Quibi has hired a restructuring firm to explore all of its options, with a call with investors scheduled for sometime today to lay some out on the table. Read more here.

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Last Call for Speculation on 9 September Apple Event

CTOvision

The iPod changed the digital music game almost fifteen years ago; the iPhone (along with other smartphones of course) similarly redefined what we expect from our mobile devices. One of the world’s largest companies, Apple’s new products are always a talking point for the media and for most everyone with a smartphone. inch screens.

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