The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is so hip these days that it’s looking for its first entrepreneur-in-residence. The agency today announced that its digital health unit is recruiting fellows to help it with tasks like assessing product quality and developing new ways to collect data. Candidates are expected to spend at least three days […]
Read moreAsh Munshi’s first jobs in the U.S. included selling newspapers and candy in New York City subway stations as a young immigrant. He also cleaned toilets and worked as a security guard. “Whatever it took to put food on the table,” Munshi says. Decades later, after attending Harvard University and building a career in Silicon […]
Read moreThe insurance industry is “well-poised” to deal with the possible impact of Hurricane Irma on Florida, according to an insurance research group. The storm, currently a Category 5, tore through several Caribbean islands on Wednesday and could make Florida landfall this weekend. Concern about the potential devastation caused insurance stocks to plunge on Tuesday. On […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted three DACA immigrants at his Silicon Valley home Wednesday, live-streaming their personal stories and pressing Congress to pass a law that protects them — and 800,000 others — from possible deportation. The discussion, watched by more than 1.1 million people on Zuckerberg’s own Facebook page, comes one day after President […]
Read moreAn internal Facebook investigation has found it is “likely” Russian operatives spent $100,000 on ads with “divisive messages” between June 2015 and May 2017. A blog post on the issue, which was published on Wednesday, said the operation involved 3,000 separate ads over a two-year period and was likely to have been run out of […]
Read moreAlphabet’s Google has picked up more support for a key piece of its cloud strategy. On Wednesday the San Francisco start-up Mesosphere announced the upcoming availability of a beta version of Google-led open-source software called Kubernetes inside its flagship software. These tools handle the work of deploying containers, which package up application code just like […]
Read moreDrug 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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