One of the biggest challenges for the company founders and CEOs, right up there with scaling the company into a sustainable business, is finding qualified employees. Yet those on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list — the 50 companies CNBC believes have the potential to upend multibillion-dollar industries to become the next generation of great public companies […]
Read moreThe Apple Watch will soon be able to track tremors experienced by Parkinson’s Disease patients to help them manage their condition. Later this year, Apple will release a software update to make it easier for medical researchers to understand the difference between a random movement, and the shakes and dyskinesia that Parkinson’s patients experience when […]
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Class Act Sports is a digital media company that started out creating videos that highlight positive stories about athletes giving back to the community. It’s also got a very unusual workplace: It’s based in a gym. Specifically, its headquarters is in the New York location of Life Time, a high-end chain of fitness centers. “When […]
Read moreCarolyn Marrow, 75, suffers from a pinched nerve in her back that affects her walking, and so at least once a month she visits her doctor several miles away from her senior living community in Redwood City, California. Marrow uses her community’s shuttle service when she can, but it often stops running before many of […]
Read moreUber and Lyft each want to be the all-encompassing transportation platform of the future, shepherding people around the world through whatever means is best suited — and the ride-hailing firms are getting close. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC last week the company wanted to be “the A-to-B platform for transportation.” Khosrowshahi said he wants […]
Read moreMark Zuckerberg thought his fellow Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk was behaving like an alarmist. Mr. Musk, the entrepreneur behind SpaceX and the electric-car maker Tesla, had taken it upon himself to warn the world that artificial intelligence was “potentially more dangerous than nukes” in television interviews and on social media. So, on Nov. 19, […]
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Kremlin: Vienna being considered as venue for possible Putin-Trump summit
Vienna is one of the cities being considered as the venue for a possible summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Saturday. Putin said last month that the proposed summit between him and Trump was not working out for now and was beset […]
Read moreImmediate denuclearization has long been Washington’s stated goal on nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang. But now that President Donald Trump has noticeably softened his tone on that front, many are wondering whether he will still pressure North Korea’s Kim Jong Un next week. Trump confirmed the June 12 summit was back on after initially canceling the […]
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