Amazon has made a lot of seemingly unrelated moves in health care over the last year. It put together a team to figure out how to bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals for its own employees. It has 40 to 50 people to figure out how to disrupt the entire drug supply chain. It hired […]
Read moreWarren Buffett has admitted missing out on Amazon as an investment and underestimating CEO Jeff Bezos. Now he’s getting another shot. Amazon said on Tuesday that it’s partnering with Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Chase in an ambitious effort to cut health-care costs and improve services for U.S. employees. Analysts at Barclays expect it […]
Read more“I ran around my house with joy, and danced with our twin babies to celebrate (we do a lot of dancing together) the impact that I know that donation will have in the world,” says Adam Braun, in a blog post published Tuesday about the moment a $999,999.99 donation from an anonymous bitcoin millionaire hit […]
Read moreAmazon‘s connected home devices could be key to the company’s new initiative aimed at lowering U.S. health care costs by improving preventative care, tech investor Roger McNamee said Tuesday. “With Amazon you have a lot of technology that people have around the home that if properly applied can help them be well every day so […]
Read moreA new startup that proposes a different spin on autonomous transportation came out of stealth today. The company, called Nuro, was founded by two former lead Google engineers who worked on the famed self-driving car project. Unlike the plethora of self-driving startups out there, Nuro isn’t focused on reconfiguring robot taxis or autonomous trucks, but […]
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Digital currency bitcoin fell Tuesday as the 20 largest digital currencies by market capitalization all declined, according to CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin traded more than 6.5 percent lower near $10,394 as of 12:12 p.m., ET, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index, which tracks prices from digital currency exchanges Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit and Bitfinex. Ethereum, the second-largest digital […]
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IN KEEPING with the trend for charging for things travellers used to get free, it should perhaps come as no surprise that sunbeds are the latest feature of a standard holiday on which travel agents are slapping extra fees. Thomas Cook, a British package-holiday firm, has announced that it will allow holidaymakers to pre-book poolside […]
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Forecasters are more optimistic now about the effects of tax cuts on economic growth, but don’t see workers pocketing much of the windfall. Respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey believe that tax cuts will add 63 basis points to GDP this year, up about 20 basis points from their December estimates. This could reflect last-minute […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only big name in Silicon Valley reconsidering whether frequent use of software and technology is good for the emotional health of consumers. The Stanford professor who literally wrote a book on how to design addictive technology has begun to ask whether doing so is always a good thing. Nir […]
Read moreAs two American citizens – one an immigrant, the other a child of immigrants – who have dedicated our careers to fighting for American workers, we believe President Trump’s immigration policies aren’t just morally wrong, they’re economic poison. Take, for example, the story of Marvin Flores. Marvin is a bricklayer who has lived and worked […]
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