Drug companies need better ways to recruit patients for their clinical trials, an undertaking that costs millions of dollars today. Dozens of technology start-ups have popped up to solve this problem. One start-up in this group is Antidote.me, which today raised $11 million today in a round led by Merck‘s strategic digital health fund. Existing […]
Read moreGoldman’s research team shared its top e-commerce stock ideas in a note to clients Wednesday. “We are raising our global e-commerce forecasts to reflect the increasing weight of faster growing earlier-stage markets (China, Brazil, India) and categories (Apparel, Grocery) in the mix, as well as the impact of retail store closures, better logistics, and new […]
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Goldman Sachs predicts electric vehicles will have dramatic implications on the auto industry supply chain during the coming decades. “After more than 100 years, it seems that an auto industry dominated by internal combustion engines is nearing an end,” analyst Kota Yuzawa wrote in a note to clients Wednesday entitled “Electric Vehicle Boom: ICE-ing the […]
Read moreElon Musk came out with another artificial intelligence warning on Monday. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO suggested that AI could be the cause of a third world war. TWEET But Musk couldn’t be more wrong, says artificial intelligence expert Max Versace, CEO of robotics and computing company Neurala and founding director of the Boston University […]
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WHEN Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, he wasted no time in trying to bar people from certain Muslim-majority countries entering America. He swiftly, too, promised to make good on his pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border. The nation’s travel industry shuddered. It did not feel like the actions of a man keen […]
Read moreWhen top congressional and administration tax reform negotiators met at the White House with President Donald Trump on Tuesday their message was basically the same. They stressed the urgency of getting the House moving on a tax bill by the end of the month. If that timetable slipped, one of the president’s top agenda items […]
Read moreYouTube’s focus on funding creators that have built loyal audiences on its platform will set it apart from its tech competitors Netflix, Apple and Facebook, according to YouTube’s chief business officer Robert Kyncl. “I don’t think we are trying to copy Netflix: We are who we are,” Kyncl said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.” “We are […]
Read moreGoldman Sachs says the division between the chaos in Washington and the relative stability with the rest of the country is confusing investors. Goldman’s chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin described what he sees as “two Americas: Policy gridlock and high volatility inside the beltway but economic growth and low volatility outside Washington, D.C.” This […]
Read moreHuawei, China’s leading smartphone maker, surpassed Apple’s global smartphone sales for the first time in June and July, according to analysis by consulting firm Counterpoint Research. Huawei is now only behind Samsung in sales, and Counterpoint says that’s thanks to the company’s consistent investment in R&D and manufacturing, as well as aggressive and creative marketing […]
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YOU can spin it on your nose, chin, finger or tongue. Some include LED lights, others resemble a ship’s wheel, or even a skull and crossbones. The fidget spinner has three paddle-shaped blades attached to a central, weighted disc containing ball bearings. Flick a blade and it spins, for anything up to 12 minutes in […]
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