1 month ago | By Inman
The consulting and analysis firm has launched a new portal that provides digital access to its library of research and reports.
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1 month ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement 2020 was a seminal year for big tech's push into healthcare.
Apple stood up a new fitness program ; Amazon launched its national pharmacy service ; Alphabet's Verily dove into coronavirus testing ; and the cloud giants are going after telehealth and building digital tools they say will power health systems' futures .
To staff these new lines of business and build new ones, tech companies are hiring a lot of people, from sales to user experience design. In some cases, their job postings hint at expansion - it looks like Verily is building out a home care program for...
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1 month ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement PagerDuty is readying for its next phase of growth by welcoming its first chief product officer this week. Sean Scott is joining the IT incident software company after 15 years at Amazon, where he most recently created and led Amazon's autonomous robot delivery unit .
Scott is joining PagerDuty as it evolves from offering individual software products to a comprehensive platform for IT response management, CEO Jennifer Tejada told Business Insider.
"In making that transition, I was really looking for a leader that could help us to go from $200 million to a billion and...
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1 month ago | By Business Insider
Summary List Placement iBuilt, a construction tech company which launched late last year out of the assets of Deluxe Modular, a half-century-old modular construction firm, just made a major hire to take factory-style manufacturing into the future.
Today, the company announced Tesla exec Gonzalo Gonzalez as its chief manufacturing officer. Gonzalez brings more than 20 years of manufacturing experience to the company, first with Jabil, a manufacturing partner for Apple, and then as Tesla's senior director of manufacturing engineering.
iBuilt, launched in November 2020, aims to be an...
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SPECIAL NOTE: The Covid Tracking Project will end daily updates on March 7th. From Bloomberg on vaccinations as of Feb 25th. "In the U.S., more Americans have now received at... Read more ...
Summary List Placement The Wyndham Rewards loyalty program includes over 9,000 hotels across 19 brands around the world. You can also use Wyndham points to book vacation... Read more ...
Health and life science specialist investment firm Foresite Capital has raised a new fund, its fifth to date, totally $969 million in commitments from LPs. This is the firm's... Read more ...
From CoStar: STR: US Hotels Nearly Half Full During Week Ending Feb. 20 U.S. weekly hotel occupancy reached its highest level since late October, according to STR‘s latest data... Read more ...
WASHINGTON - The economy grew at a 4.1% pace in the final three months of 2020, slightly faster than first estimated, ending a year in which the overall economy, ravaged by a... Read more ...
The DOL reported : In the week ending February 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 730,000, a decrease of 111,000 from the previous week's revised... Read more ...
Summary List Placement Luke Lloyd is an outspoken bitcoin bull when it comes to his long-term outlook. So it might have come as head-scratching news to some when the investment... Read more ...
Summary List Placement SpineZone, a healthtech startup using data to improve the treatment of skeletal conditions, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. Founded... Read more ...
Summary List Placement The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Powell signaled that the Fed will continue to remain... Read more ...
Summary List Placement Charlie Munger said SPACs are an "irritating bubble" at the Daily Journal annual meeting Wednesday. The Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman said the world... Read more ...