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Walgreens Braces For Amazon’s Beauty Care Play

Amazon’s plan to open grocery stores with beauty and personal care products comes as Walgreens Boots Alliance steps up its e-commerce in food and beauty.

Walgreens: Microsoft Scientists Working On ‘Store Of The Future’

Walgreens Boots Alliance said Microsoft is engaged in a “research project” focused on improving the drugstore chain’s data capabilities to create the “store of the future.”

Improving Health And Hygiene With Purell, Azure, And IoT

GOJO Industries–makers of Purell–are leveraging Microsoft Azure to develop technology for connected IoT hand sanitizer dispensers to monitor hygiene behavior in hospitals and provide data that can be used to influence the practice of hand hygiene to …

How Do You Innovate? A Practical Guide To Creating New Products And Businesses

Startups are innovating at a huge risk to the founders and investors. How do you create new products and businesses inside a big or medium-sized organization without taking huge risks and increase R&D effectiveness? This article offers a method to go …

Walgreens Partnership Strategy Won’t End With Microsoft

Walgreens and Microsoft “will reach out to other players in the space to create a true ecosystem,” Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Stefano Pessina says.

Walgreens CEO: Microsoft Will Help Create ‘Ecosystem’ To Simplify Healthcare

Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina says the partnership with Microsoft will help create an “ecosystem” that connects its drugstores to patients and their medical care providers in communities.

In Blockbuster Alliance, Walgreens And Microsoft To Develop ‘New Healthcare Models’

Walgreens said it has formed a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to “develop new health care delivery models, technology and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of health care.”

Poor Worker Health Costs U.S. Employers Half Trillion Dollars A Year

Poor worker health costs U.S. employers $530 billion a year, the Integrated Benefits Institute reports.

BlackBerry Shows IoT Progress With New Products And Partnerships

BlackBerry pushes deeper into the Internet of Things with updated QNX RTOS software for healthcare, a blockchain partnership and a platform called Spark. The company continues to bolster its security portfolio with a focus on financial, government, he…

17 Surprising Remote Jobs With A Great Salary

These 17 remote jobs surprisingly can earn you a great salary.