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Lumosity, which creates brain-training exercises and games, has raised $31.5 million in additional funding to help enhance cognitive studies and performance around the world. The San Francisco-based ...

Talk about a corporate headache. Lumosity, the brain-training game app whose TV ads and web presence have been near-ubiquitous in recent years, was slapped with a $50 million fine by the FTC earlier ...

Lumosity CEO Kunal Sarkar made a risky move in relaunching — and not just incrementally updating — his popular educational iPhone app, and early results show that the gambit was a good one. Lumosity’s ...

The maker of brain game app Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged it deceived consumers about the product’s brain-training ...

The brain-training giant Lumosity is recalibrating its strategy and facing new challenges as it reels from a federal crackdown on bold health claims about its digital games. The company behind the ...

Americans are hooked on brain-boosting apps. Your father or grandmother might buy programs like Lumosity in the hopes that its appealing marketing claims will be realized: Just a few minutes of puzzle ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumos Labs, makers of Lumosity, today released a Word Bubbles Insight that reveals how users’ vocabulary matches with the vocabularies of six iconic authors. Lumosity ...

Brain-game maker Lumos Labs just got slapped with a $2 million penalty from the Federal Trade Commission for falsely claiming that it can help people fight the degenerative effects of aging. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumosity, the leader in online brain training, today announced that it has raised $31.5 million in Series D financing. Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, ...

Brain training apps such as Lumosity and Elevate are supposedly useful in order to keep your cognitive skills sharp, but there's been quite a bit of doubt cast on whether they are actually useful. Now ...

The creators of the Lumosity "brain training" program will pay the Federal Trade Commission $2 million to settle charges they deceived consumers with unfounded claims that their product sharpened ...