Naming Your New Company: Here’s What to Know
By: Miles Kruppa There is so much to do before you start your own company. You have to develop a business plan. You have to find financing. Oh, and you have to give it a name. Consider that roughly 627,000 businesses open every year in the U.S., according to a Small Business Administration estimate. That […]
Lenders offer cheap deals to Silicon Valley to compete with flood of venture capital
By: Miles Kruppa (Read Full Article Here)
Hospital costs, not drug prices, are the real US healthcare scandal
By: Nisarg Patel Hospital costs, not drug prices, are the real US healthcare scandal Medical monopolies have allowed inflation to get out of hand, but American politicians are not paying attention. The parallels between banks’ skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan and today’s hospital behemoths are striking: sparkling glass windows, vast marble lobbies and expensively maintained greenery, […]
Johnson & Johnson Posts Higher Profit as Healthcare Demand Returns
By: Laura Cooper and Matt Grossman Johnson & Johnson Posts Higher Profit as Healthcare Demand Returns Greater demand for medical devices, drugs and consumer-health products helped boost sales and profit for Johnson & Johnson in the latest quarter, a sign people are returning for healthcare services they deferred earlier in the pandemic. Sales of J&J’s […]
Eating Disorders Surged Among Adolescents in Pandemic
By: Sumathi Reddy Eating Disorders Surged Among Adolescents in Pandemic (Read Full Article Here)
Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy
By: Rolfe Winkler Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has said the company’s greatest contribution to mankind will be in health. So far, some Apple initiatives aimed at broadly disrupting the healthcare sector have struggled to gain traction, according to people familiar with them and […]
AI prompts a scramble for healthcare data
By: Brian Barth AI prompts a scramble for healthcare data (Read Full Article Here)
Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person’s Silicon Valley, if that’s not too much trouble
By: Brian Barth Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person’s Silicon Valley, if that’s not too much trouble It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech, a bustling tech hub that occupies a renovated 19th–century tannery in the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Inside the brick-and-beam space, Harleen Kaur opens her […]
The Venture-Capital Trends to Watch
By: Cheryl Winokur Munk Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents Last year, venture firms raised more cash than ever before—and many in the industry predict the momentum will continue. Even though 2020 was terrible for countless small businesses and startups, the venture industry raised $73.6 billion in the U.S. in 2020, blowing past the […]
Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents
By: Sarah Krouse Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents Teladoc Health Inc., the country’s largest publicly traded telemedicine provider, has sued rival American Well Corp. for alleged patent violations related to technology behind robot-like carts that connect hospitalized patients with specialists in real time via video. The patent-infringement suit, filed Monday in a Delaware […]
