PRO: The quantified self: hacking the body for better health
The quantified-self movement is a community of individuals deploying mobile health applications, fitness trackers and social media platforms to share information on their health behaviors. It's an important movement to watch, as its growth has huge potential implications for the health care sector's future evolution.
Verizon: You can keep unlimited — if you buy your own phone
Verizon Wireless apparently isn’t done talking about its controversial plan to phase out "grandfathered" unlimited data plans, issuing a statement Thursday explaining the new policy. What it boils down to is this: You can keep unlimited, but don’t expect Verizon to subsidize your device.
Player FM makes podcasts look cool again
Player FM. wants to make it easier to consume podcasts across different devices: The web-based curation and playback platform was launched by former Googler Michael Mahemoff just a few days ago, but Mahemoff is already thinking about bringing new ad formats and micropayments to podcasts.
Urban Airship prepares for its Super Bowl moment
Urban Airship is investing big in its infrastructure, scaling its push messaging platform to deliver 100,000 messages a second. As Airship begins to refine push marketing to take into account location, time and context, it's becoming critical it deliver notifications in volume and in real time.
Foodspotting moves to ensure you don’t need Yelp’s app
Foodspotting is putting great services offered by Yelp right into its social food-finding app: reviews, as well as OpenTable reservations and menu pages from Single Platform. Plus: Restaurants will find more informative dashboard pages and users will see far more data on their profile pages.
Why Google needs the Motorola deal for tablets
China is expected to rule soon on Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola, with the deal already approved elsewhere. It needs the deal, especially for tablets, says Goldman Sachs, because the costs are too high to be the default search engine on Apple's iPad.
Great technology — however cool — isn’t always enough
Ten years ago, Plastic Logic looked like it had all the elements in place to become a world-beating startup. Now it's ditched its attempts to become a household name and decided to focus on licensing its technology instead. So where did it all go wrong? 
10 things to know about tech startups in Brazil
Compared to Mexico, the web and mobile startup ecosystem in Brazil is hot -- probably too hot. Here's 10 things you should know if you want to build, buy, invest in or work at a tech startup in Brazil.
How mobile networks are policing the web — badly
Mounting evidence suggests Europe's mobile operators are becoming increasingly censorious, thanks to haphazard adult content filters that are applied to millions of users. The result? De facto, unregulated censorship that screens out thousands of legitimate websites, including GigaOM.
Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?
If Facebook’s future is mobile, then it may not be enough for it to merely secure a piece of the mobile ad market. It will need to have an outsized impact on the industry.
Hacked recipes and printing food: When bytes meet bites
Everyone may not get excited about open APIs or 3-D printing (what is wrong with y’all?) but everyone loves food. Here are four novel ways the tech world interacts with food (or even food prep). So grab a snack and read on.
Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward
When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling.
