(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 month, Amazon Clinic offers message-based care for 18 conditions such […]
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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 ensure they are fairly remunerated. It follows Facebook’s […]
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 effort to make it easier to assemble processor elements called chiplets into one larger device. The effort […]
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 become vice-president of Meta’s global business group. Mendelsohn […]
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 to punch way above their weight. The Omaha-based subscription pet care company […]
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 Digital Platforms and Media Businesses” was announced on Friday by […]
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 “mandatory code of conduct” to govern relations between the struggling news industry and […]
(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 to crush rivals at the expense of consumers. The House antitrust subcommittee will […]
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 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, “The […]
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 challenging job of helping manage over 30,000 employees amid a coronavirus pandemic, a major […]