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Facebook tracks your workout and we're clipping coupons on Amazon I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update facebook is now in the fitness game the social network bought a smartphone app called moves it uses the sensors in your smartphone to record your walking biking and running and it puts all that data on a timeline so you can analyze your fitness habits facebook said the moves app will remain as a separate app and it is popular it's been downloaded more than 4 million times but why does facebook want a fitness app the name of the game is data and with data about your habits it could sell that information to advertisers and perhaps target you better but that's not all facebook also wants to be a newswire service the network has created Facebook newswire it pulls news stories in that are shared publicly on facebook so other journalists can see what news is being announced on facebook and then encourage more reporters to depend on facebook so facebook is your news channel but it's also your gym and it's your telephone service with messenger it wants to provide internet with flying drones and if that wasn't enough it's also trying to control virtual reality with its purchase of oculus VR it tried being your phone but that didn't work out so well and it tried being your email I think Facebook just wants to be Google but Google struggles to be Facebook the google plus social network is not as popular and Google was late to the social game but the man who built Google+ Vic Gundotra he stepped down and announced on Thursday that he's leaving Google after eight years with the company now the vice president of engineering for Google+ is stepping up to lead the network and another giant tech company news amazon has a new grocery delivery service it's called Amazon Prime pantry and if you subscribe to prime which is now a hundred dollars a year you get the option to buy a bunch of dry goods and home supplies to be delivered to your door and you can buy cereal canned goods soap but it doesn't include fresh foods that can spoil even though you pay for prime is still have to pay for delivery there's a flat six dollar fee to fill up one box and that box can hold up to 45 pounds you can see how full the boxes while you shop and there are coupons to clip to ease the pain of that shipping fee but you better not be in a hurry it could take up to five days to arrive that's your tech news update you can head to cnet com for more details on these stories and be sure to follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey