Category: Disruptors

Retail and tech giant Amazon plans to cut 9,000 workers after the company laid off 18,000 workers in January, CBS News reported March 20.

The Federal Trade Commission didn’t contest Amazon’s $3.9 billion deal for primary care company One Medical despite agency officials’ beliefs that the acquisition would hurt competition, Politico reported March 20.

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has released a tool that uses artificial intelligence to predict the structure of hundreds of millions of proteins, competing with similar technology from Google parent Alphabet, The Wall Street Journal r…

Google is developing an updated version of its medical large language model so that it answers health questions more accurately, CNBC reported March 14. 

Google Health is launching a suite of open source tools to help developers build digital health apps. 

Google Health announced its search function will soon be able to identify community health centers and provide consumers with information on which facilities have free or low-cost care options. 

Current and former employees of retail giant Amazon have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company in an Illinois county court, alleging that the company made employment decisions based on genetic information obtained during the application proc…

Healthcare regulators for the state of Connecticut are investigating VillageMD’s acquisition of a 30-location medical group in the state, Hartford Business Journal reported March 13.

Apple’s AirPods and AirPods Pro might be used to monitor heart rates and characterize blood flow in consumer’s ear skin, Apple Insider reported March 12. 

Optum Health promoted Caitlin Zulla to CEO of the company’s east region.