Startup FitnessKeeper , the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-person operation and dive into the highly competitive world of now-fashionable mobile fitness applications. The RunKeeper iPhone app uses GPS locating to track your distance, time, elevation, pace and path on a map and has caught the eye of several major investors since the company was founded two years ago, primarily because it has kept up with rapidly developing technologies.

“It was almost out of fear of being left behind” said director Richard Kelly of his reasons for joining Twitter at last night's Power of the Tweet Poolside Chat for the L.A. Film Festival .  The chat was intended to bring together some of Hollywood's most Twitter-happy personalities , with a panel that also included filmmakers Jon Chu , Eli Roth and Adam Shankman , whom you may know best as the recipient of that infamous Miley Cyrus lap dance . For those who think Twitter has peaked and is on the decline, think again

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