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October 2014

07 Oct

dacadoo launches its new product “The Team Challenge World Cup"

Zurich, Switzerland – dacadoo, the Swiss mobile health company, launches its new product “The Team Challenge World Cup”, a 6-month fitness activity tracking competition that will start January 1st, 2015 and where company teams of 5 employees each will compete against other teams around the world. The winning team will get a check of USD 5,000 which will be donated to a charitable institution in the name of the winning team.

August 2014

15 Aug

Survey confirms that corporate health promotion is gaining importance

In the first half of 2014, dacadoo conducted an online survey among companies located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to gain better insights on current corporate health promotion practice and future trends. 40% of respondents mentioned that an organizational health process was in place in their company and 33% confirmed that corporate health promotion activities were being offered as part of their organizational health process. According to the survey, already 25% of companies also offer...

July 2014

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March 2014

31 Mar

dacadoo is selected as a Finalist for the 2014 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

Zurich – 24 t h March 2014 – dacadoo ag announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion: they include disruptive impact, market footprint, proo...

February 2014

24 Feb

dacadoo Health Score application now available for new Samsung Gear 2

dacadoo today announced that it’s innovative and award winning health score platform is now available for the new Samsung Gear 2. Launched yesterday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the next generation Samsung Gear 2 will come pre-installed with the dacadoo health score application. The dacadoo application is optimized for the Samsung Gear 2 as a mini version of its comprehensive dacadoo health and wellbeing platform (www.dacadoo.com). With the dacadoo app, users will be able to see...

December 2013

November 2013

13 Nov

dacadoo wins the “Oscar” of the IT industry in Switzerland, the Public Award at the Swiss ICT Awards 2013

Lucerne, Switzerland – The innovative dacadoo health, lifestyle navigation and wellbeing platform (www.dacadoo.com) gets most votes from the public and wins the prestigious Public Award at the Swiss ICT Awards 2013 in Lucerne, the “Oscar” of the IT industry in Switzerland. More than 800 invited guests from politics and executives from the industry celebrated 10 finalists among 3’100 ICT companies in Switzerland who competed in 3 categories for the Swiss ICT Award 2013 at the beautiful KKL con...

July 2013

17 Jul

McCann Health and dacadoo Form Global Strategic Partnership

McCann Health and dacadoo have formed a strategic partnership focused on expanding the global healthcare and lifestyle marketing potential of the dacadoo Health Score Platform. Comprising the world’s most connected health and wellness experts, McCann Health is the most awarded professional and consumer health communications network with the largest international expertise spanning 35 countries and 57 offices. The dacadoo platform calculates your personal Health Score, a number from 1 to 1000.

April 2013

22 Apr

dacadoo introduces the nutrition module

Zurich, Switzerland – The dacadoo health platform now allows users to manage their nutrition, in addition to physical activity. Individuals can track and monitor their personal progress and improvement from a nutritional perspective in real-time. The dacadoo health score, with values between 1 to 1,000 indicates an individual’s optimization potential for health and well-being. It is based on leading-edge clinical and scientific knowledge about what constitutes a healthy lifestyle.

March 2013

21 Mar

dacadoo now in Czech Republic

Životní styl, pohodu a zodpovědnost ke svému zdraví můžete mít v mobilu, tabletu a počítači ve zcela unikátní platformě dacadoo – nyní v češtině! Mobilní platforma dacadoo inspiruje ke zdravějšímu životu, spočítá Zdravotní skóre a pomocí principů her a sociálních sítí motivuje k aktivitě. dacadoo je lifestylová navigační platforma zahrnující jak integrovanou webovou platformu, tak i mobilní web a aplikace pro chytré telefony.

February 2013

ABOUT DACADOO

Live healthy! Track and benchmark your health and fitness. Get your dacadoo Health Score, share activities with friends, win challenges!

dacadoo has developed an easy-to-use, wireless, secure and fun way to manage your personal health & fitness from a lifestyle, wellness and chronic disease perspective called the dacadoo health platform.

The platform calculates your personal dacadoo Health Score, a number from 1 (poor) to 1’000 (excellent). It is a directional relative indicator of your current health and fitness status in real-time. By integrating gaming and social networking principles, dacadoo motivates you to be active in an easy way by automatically tracking and comparing your personal health, fitness and lifestyle.

The dacadoo health platform enables the tracking of over 100 fitness activities (outdoor and indoor sports) either over the mobile dacadoo tracker app or via manual entry. The dacadoo energy models are based on MET (metabolic equivalent of Task)* which measures the intensity of a physical activity. *Compendium of Physical Activity, Stanford University