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$SCAI UnitedHealth’s $UNH Optum to Acquire Surgical Care Affiliates for $2.3 Billion – WSJ
$SCAI UnitedHealth’s $UNH Optum to Acquire Surgical Care Affiliates for $2.3 Billion – WSJ7. INCY, MRK: $INCY Incyte & Merck $MRK to Advance Clinical Development Program Investigating Epacadostat w KEYTRUDA
$INCY Incyte & Merck $MRK to Advance Clinical Development Program Investigating Epacadostat w KEYTRUDA9. PTX: $PTX Pernix Therapeutics Appoints Ken Piña as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer – GN
$PTX Pernix Therapeutics Appoints Ken Piña as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer – GN
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4. UnitedHealth’s Optum to Acquire Surgical Care Affiliates for $2.3 Billion
Technology News
- And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
- A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
- According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
- known for years that Apple considered a number of different approaches when creating the original iPhone and iOS but before today not had a really good look at any of these early discarded prototypes.
- Pictures and video published by Sonny Dickson change that showing what the site claims is an iOS precursor named that uses a click wheel to navigate the interface.
- To see which design would work better he pitted the iPod and Macintosh teams against one another with the efforts led by executives Tony Fadell and Scott Forstall respectively.
- And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
- A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
- According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
- And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
- A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
- According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
- One of the flagship appliances that will make good on this promise is the Smart Instaview Refrigerator a fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon Alexa service.
- Alexa is an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator which like the Amazon Echo itself can just sit in the corner of your kitchen awaiting your command.
- Privacy is a concern without being compromised companies can use their smart devices to serve up ads or give audio or video recordings to law enforcement.
- The company on Sunday unveiled Movement a website it hopes will persuade city planners to consider Uber as part of urban development and transit systems in the future.
- totality of Uber and Lyft drivers in Boston represent what is effectively the addition of another transit line Jascha chief information officer at Department of Innovation Technology said in an interview.
- But the company said it would balance that demand for information with concerns about user privacy and the need to protect competitive data that could prove valuable to rivals like Lyft Hailo and Grab which are vying for riders across many of the same markets.
- Previous talks between Google and automakers including Ford have broken down over who will control the flow of data from autonomous cars that marketers covet to learn the habits of consumers people familiar with the discussion have said.
- of us in the automobile or IT industries are close to achieving true Level autonomy said Gill Pratt CEO of the Toyota Research Institute referring to the ability of a car to drive itself without any human intervention.
- You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter find it hard to believe that the world will be this utopia of people sitting in the passenger seat getting aromatherapy and listening to Enya while cars figure out which one should proceed through the intersection first Tynan said in an interview.
- European nations have also drawn up their own privacy laws and in a court declared its citizens could demand internet companies like Google unlink information about users upon request.
- free speech and internet freedom are increasingly under attack all over the globe and not just from authoritarian regimes said Robert McDowell a former member of the Federal Communications Commission and partner at Cooley law firm.
- Most American internet companies in Russia operate in violation of the law but without explanation Russian regulators at a body known as Roskomnadzor took the rare step of enforcing its rules.
- One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
- For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
- One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
- One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
- For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
- One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
