Apple's HealthKit Is a Huge Headache for One Startup

The room full of developers at Apple's big WWDC keynote event in San Francisco this week broke out in applause multiple times as SVP Craig Federighi unveiled HealthKit, a new platform for health and fitness apps that will be released with iOS 8

On the other side of the world, however, Alison Hardacre and her team had a very different reaction

"We were pretty shocked when we saw they were using our name," says Hardacre, who is the cofounder and managing director of HealthKit, an Australian healthcare startup. "We had absolutely no advanced warning — none!" Read more...