New York City-based Noom launched a new Android app, a pedometer that tracks steps throughout the day while running in the background and only occupying about 3 percent of the phone's battery life.

Add the pedometer to the list of items heading toward oblivion. That might be the thinking of Independence Blue Cross, the Philadelphia-based insurer that recently introduced the IBX Healthy Steps ...

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 ...