French publisher Hachette Livre acquires majority stake in brain training app Peak

By SharpBrains | December 23, 2016

Brain-train­ing app Peak sells major­i­ty stake to French pub­lish­er Hachette (TechCrunch): “Some­thing of a sleep­er hit, the mak­ers of Peak — a sub­­scrip­­tion-based ser­vice specif­i­cal­ly designed to enter­tain a user while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly exer­cis­ing their cog­ni­tive skills — have sold a major­i­ty stake to French pub­lish­er Hachette Livre. Cre­at­ed by

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Top 10 Quotes on Lifelong Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis (and a Call to eBook Readers)

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 6, 2011

You may have  noticed that Amazon.com is shar­ing aggre­gat­ed data on how ebook read­ers inter­act with the books they are read­ing. For exam­ple, the “Pop­u­lar High­lights” sec­tion (towards the bot­tom of our Kin­dle book page) ranks the Top 10 sen­tences that Kin­dle read­ers have high­light­ed and shared while read­ing The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18…

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