Ahead of a planned enterprise release later this year, Magic Leap has provided a group of healthcare companies with early access to its second-generation augmented reality headset.
Abbott tells CES it’s getting into consumer biowearables
US medical device maker, Abbott, is moving into making general purpose consumer biosensing wearables. The company has been making continuous glucose monitor (CGM) hardware for diabetes management for years (since 2014) — but in a healthtech keynote at CES yesterday, Abbott’s chairman and CEO, Robert B Ford, announced it’s developing a new line of consumer […]
Is cryptocurrency an alternative to remittances or an additive factor?
Is cryptocurrency an effective replacement for remittances? No, at least not yet.
EU clears Microsoft-Nuance without conditions
The European Union’s competition regulator has given the all-clear to Microsoft’s $19.7 billion purchase of transcription tech firm Nuance, which was announced earlier this year. The EU said today it has concluded there are no competition concerns for the region if the acquisition goes ahead, clearing it without conditions. The deal was notified to the […]
Oracle joins Microsoft in spending big to dominate healthcare vertical
Enterprise software companies are focused firmly on healthcare. If you want proof, look at how Oracle and Microsoft both backed up trucks loaded with money to buy health tech companies this year.
It’s time for investors to redefine how we evaluate digital health startups
While digital health has captivated the attention of investors, early-stage entrepreneurs are being required to address a highly complicated yet critical question: How can I show value and ROI?
American Express taps Opy for its first US third-party BNPL offering
Credit card companies are seeking to push further into the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) market. American Express (Amex) announced today that it plans to partner with Opy, the U.S. subsidiary of Australian fintech Openpay, to allow all of its U.S. cardmembers to pay in installments for qualifying purchases in the healthcare and automotive segments. […]
Sydney-based medtech startup Harrison.ai gets $129M AUD led by Horizons Ventures
Harrison.ai, a Sydney-based company that creates medical devices with AI technology, announced today it has raised $129 million AUD (about $92.3 million USD) in what it says is one of the largest Series B rounds ever for an Australian startup. The funding was led by returning investor Horizons Ventures, and included participation from new investors […]
Portugal’s ‘Predictive maintenance’ startup Stratio pulls in a $12M Series A round led by Forestay
The fleet management industry needs to be able to predict when a truck or a van is about to break down. Not only does this prevent millions in lost revenues, it also has huge implications for supply chains. ‘Predictive maintenance’ is one of those spaces in which you will find several incumbent companies, such as […]
Investors: Up your ante at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021
The “oil bidness,” as they say in Texas, is so 20th century. Data, artificial intelligence and machine learning are the power triad fueling the future. If you’re an investor placing bets on the data operations market, you can’t afford to miss the iMerit ML DataOps Summit on December 2, 2021. This free, one-day virtual conference […]