Christina Farr is a technology and health reporter for CNBC.com in San Francisco. She most recently was a senior writer at Fast Company, covering biotech and health-tech for digital and print, and an Apple reporter at Reuters News. She hails from London, UK and is a graduate of Stanford's School of Journalism. Reach her on Twitter (@chrissyfarr).
Facebook CFO David Wehner is one of three new board members appointed to Alector, a company taking an innovative approach to curing Alzheimer's. The other two are 23andMe's chief science officer, Richard Scheller, and ex-Genentech CFO Louis Lavigne.
UnitedHealthcare members enrolled in the Motion program can get an Apple Watch for the cost of taxes and shipping alone, if they reach certain fitness milestones.
DeepMind Health says that it will be absorbed into Google Health, but it still won't be sharing patient health information with its parent company. Its critics remain concerned.
CNBC has learned that DeepMind's health subsidiary is moving under the newly-formed Google Health led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg.
In 2012, Quanttus set out to make a smart watch that could measure blood pressure around the clock. It failed but the dream lives on, as Quanttus alums spread out to companies like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Fitbit, Nike, Samsung and more.
Google is hoping to better coordinate its efforts in health care. It hired Geisinger Health CEO's David Feinberg, but in the interim, it has named Verily's Linus Upson as interim chief.
Google is hiring Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to define its strategy in the $3 trillion medical sector and coordinate work across its various teams.
The conference is a rare opportunity for Alphabet employees to come together from the various teams dabbling in health care, including Google Fit, Nest, Google Brain, Verily and Calico. It's billed as an academic conference.
After decades running one of the world's most famous hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, Toby Cosgrove is helping Google figure out how to sell its technology and services into health care. His advice: Don't expect hospitals go whole-hog into the cloud.
Illumina made a move that will help it retain its dominance in the burgeoning DNA-sequencing field, experts say.
Facebook CFO David Wehner is one of three new board members appointed to Alector, a company taking an innovative approach to curing Alzheimer's. The other two are 23andMe's chief science officer, Richard Scheller, and ex-Genentech CFO Louis Lavigne.
Chip-maker Nvidia fell more than 18 percent in premarket trading Friday after missing analyst expectations on revenue and guidance in its third quarter 2019 earnings report. Competitor Advanced Micro Devices also fell more than 7 percent premarket.
At an all-hands meeting, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was asked what he's learned from the failures of big retailers. Bezos told employees that "Amazon is not too big to fail," and that the company must stay hungry.
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a Facebook post that she and founder Mark Zuckerberg were "too slow" to respond to the Russian interference on the site.
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