Apple has acquired Gliimpse, a personal data collection startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move, which was earlier reported by Fast Company, should bolster Apple’s broader ambitions to expand its presence in the health industry. Gliimpse was founded in Silicon Valley in 2013. According to its website, the company’s goal ... Read More »
Apple’s ambitions in the health sector continue to expand, with its digital health team making its first known acquisition—personal health data startup Gliimpse,Fast Company has learned. Silicon Valley-based Gliimpse has built a personal health data platform that enables any American to collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health ... Read More »
If you search for “Hillary Clinton” and “health” on Google, you’re likely to come up with some pretty terrifying stuff — and much of it is false. Photos of the 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee apparently so weak that she has to be helped up a short flight of stairs by aides. Speculation that the head ... Read More »
A major health-services company is revamping the employee wellness and care-management programs supplied to its clients after a yearslong study of who actually benefits from calls offering health advice. Equity Healthcare, owned by private-equity giant Blackstone Group, helps shape the health benefits of around 280,000 people. It is sharply cutting ... Read More »
DUBAI (Staff Report) – Pakistan has topped the ICC Test ranking for the first time after wet ground at the Queen Park Oval, Port of Spain, denied India the opportunity to defend the top spot which it had reclaimed from Australia last week. The result of the fourth and final Test means ... Read More »
India captain Virat Kohli made light of losing Test cricket’s top ranking to arch-rivals Pakistan in the aftermath of the abandoned fourth and final match of the series against the West Indies in Trinidad on Monday. With a waterlogged outfield limiting play to just 22 overs before lunch on the ... Read More »
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani jointly inaugurated Kabul’s Stor Palace via video conference and called the monument a “setting for many momentous historical events”. “The inauguration signalled and showed our joint commitment to strengthening the foundations of modern Afghanistan. The India-Afghanistan-Iran transit corridor agreement ... Read More »
India is set to deliver more arms to Afghanistan to help it fight Islamist militants, Kabul’s envoy to New Delhi said, even if Pakistan is wary of closer military cooperation between countries lying to its east and west. India has provided a little over $2 billion in economic assistance to ... Read More »
India’s Stock Market & Industry Growth The stock market index with the longest track record in India is the BSE Sensex. The index has returned about 16.14% per annum since 1979. Including dividends, the total return from the BSE Sensex between 1979 and 2016 has been around 17.5% per annum. ... Read More »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been most vocal in fighting terrorism — mainly of the Islamic militant groups based in Pakistan — in the last two years. India has been hectoring the United States and other Western countries to be firm against Pakistan which is seen by India to be ... Read More »
The Department of Health has said job offers have been made to more than 500 nurses from overseas to take up employment across Northern Ireland’s five health trusts. An acute shortage of nurses in Northern Ireland had led to four separate international recruitment drives. A total of 488 jobs have ... Read More »
The listed Ardent Leisure Group today unveiled a surprise deal to sell its health clubs division, comprising Goodlife Health Clubs and Hypoxi, to private equity house Quadrant for $260 million. The group, led by businesswoman Deborah Thomas, has also offered up its marinas for sale in a deal worth over ... Read More »
