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Can Congress safeguard what health tech companies do with your DNA?
WASHINGTON — Apps and tech companies often provide employers and advertisers with information about your search histories, where you go, and your efforts to get pregnant. What if they also shared information about your very personal, very unchangeable DNA? Millions of people have turned to consumer genetics tests to get a peek into their ancestry …
Sears to close at Security Square Mall – Fox Baltimore
Sears to close at Security Square Mall Fox Baltimore Sears, Kmart closing 26 stores in October, including one in Littleton FOX 31 Denver Sears and Kmart store closings list: 21 Sears and 5 Kmart locations to close in October USA TODAY Sears and Kmart are closing these 26 stores in October CNN Sears announces mass closures, including Indian River …
One of the Largest Hotel Companies in the World is Ditching Mini Bathroom Bottles to Eliminate Plastic
The company that runs the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotel chains announced this week that all of its 843,000 guest rooms will provide shampoo and other bathroom amenities from bulk-sized containers, eliminating millions of plastic bottles from landfills. InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, will be implementing the phase-out …
Why did conservatives become so cranky about America’s leading technology companies?
The recent Republican embrace of trade protectionism is pretty weird. Plenty of economic and historical evidence shows tariffs to be harmful, self-defeating policy. They certainly never made America great. Then there’s how the same supply-side ideology that intellectually powers GOP tax policy also blames the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 — a pretty big tax, …
Crystal City-Based Technology Association Invests in Diversity-Focused Companies
Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders, plus other local technology happenings. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage …
SoftBank launches new $108bn Vision Fund to back technology companies
SoftBank has announced its second Vision Fund which it said will have a record $108bn (£86bn) to invest in start-ups around the world. The company said that Microsoft, Apple, Standard Chartered Bank and iPhone manufacturer Foxconn have all agreed to invest in the fund. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which pumped $45bn into its original …
Justice Department Opens Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
The federal government has turned its full investigative powers on examining the world’s biggest technology companies, building on a backlash against the industry that has been growing for over a year. The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it would start an antitrust review into how powerful internet companies had accumulated market power and whether …
Justice Department opens sweeping antitrust review of major technology companies
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Wearable Health Tech & Medical Device Companies & Startups in 2019
Wearable health technology may have started out as simple step counters, but medical device companies and startups have transformed these wearables into cutting-edge personal healthcare tools. Wearable technology can be worn as wrist-bands, watches, glasses or clothing – and the list doesn’t end there. Wearable tech is part of the larger digital health ecosystem Business …
Health insurance companies seek average individual market rate hike of 2.5% for 2020
Nine health insurance companies filed to have individual plans included next year on the Obamacare exchange in Michigan, requesting rate changes ranging from an increase of 8.3 percent to a decrease of 8.8 percent, according to the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services. Open enrollment for Michigan’s Health Insurance Marketplace, operated by the federal …
