Testing Amazon Clinic, the tech giant’s latest foray into healthcare – GeekWire
(BigStock Photo / GeekWire Illustration) Can Amazon help provide healthcare advice and treatment as efficiently as it delivers items to your door? That was the question I had as I tested the company’s latest foray into healthcare. Launched earlier this…
Microsoft calls for Australia-style action forcing tech giants to pay for news
Microsoft has leaned on the side of the press in an escalating debate over whether tech giants should be forced to pay news organisations for content. The PC maker is backing an Australia-style system alongside Europe’s press publishers, in a bid to…
Chip Giants’ Mix-and-Match Processor Plan Could Speed Moore’s Law
Intel packages several “chiplets” into one gargantuan Ponte Vecchio processor. The new UCIe alliance should make such packaging easier. Stephen Shankland/CNET Almost all of the world’s biggest chipmakers have banded together in an…
From Facebook to Meta: social giant’s Nicola Mendelsohn on marketing in the metaverse
Following Thursday’s announcement that Facebook is rebranding to Meta as part of its efforts to transform from a social media company to a metaverse company, The Drum catches up with Nicola Mendelsohn, who is leaving her post as vice-president of EMEA to…
How a pet subscription startup is outfoxing giants like Chewy and Amazon
How do you build a subscription box business to rival major brands? PetFriendly, a startup that sells vet-quality flea & tick medication on a subscription model, has found success through personalization, pointing the way for other ecommerce startups…
Australia to Put Tech Giants on Tighter Leash, Make Them Pay for News
Australia is getting closer to moving ahead with controversial legislation that will make the U.S. tech giants pay local companies for news. Other measures to contain their influence are also on the cards. The “Draft Mandatory Code of Conduct Governing…
Australia unveils law forcing tech giants to pay for news
Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the US digital giants. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the…
Four Tech Giants Gird for Tough Hearing in House Antitrust Probe
(Bloomberg) — Chief executives from four of the biggest U.S. technology companies will face a moment of reckoning Wednesday in an extraordinary joint appearance before Congress that will air bipartisan concerns that they are using their dominance…
Despite COVID-19 pandemic, tech giants still profit from anti-vaccination movement
The campaign against vaccines is sometimes called a movement, but with the help of tech giants it has become a billion-dollar industry, in which ideologues, hucksters and tech companies benefit from each other. That is the central finding of our new…
How tech giants are handling the unprecedented mental health crisis in the workplace
Betsy Sutter has over three decades of experience in human resources, but nothing has prepared her for the widespread mental turmoil currently afflicting her colleagues. As chief people officer for business software firm VMware, Sutter has the…