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A new category of activity tracking applications has been having massive success recently on Google Play, Android’s official app store, having been downloaded on over 20 million devices. The applications promote themselves as health, pedometer, and good habit-building apps, promising to give users random rewards for staying active in their daily lives, reaching distance goals, etc. According to a report by the Dr. Web antivirus, though, the rewards may be impossible to cash out or are… Source link

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photo: Getty Images As a torrent of bad press consumes Facebook — or whatever the company may soon be renamed — it’s worth remembering that to become an industry-dominating social-media Goliath, sometimes you need a little help from your friends. Perhaps they’re better described as co-conspirators.