In its first aquisition of calendar 2017, Microsoft announced plans to buy Montreal-based deep-learning startup Maluuba for an undisclosed amount. Maluuba has done work in natural-language understanding and reinforcement learning. Harry Shum, Microsoft executive vice president of the company’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, explained a potential scenario where […]
TORONTO (Reuters) – Some of Canada’s largest corporations and top executives launched two separate initiatives this week, investing millions of dollars into startup programs they hope will help stem a brain drain in fields like artificial intelligence and financial technology. NextAI, which was unveiled on Wednesday, and Diagram, announced […]
Techstars Healthcare Accelerator , in partnership with Cedars-Sinai, today announced that 8 companies have been selected to participate in its second class. From artificial intelligence to new devices and disruptive services, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based […]
Jonson & Johnson is the world’s biggest healthcare group, (Source: Getty) Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is snapping up Europe’s biggest biotech company Actelion in a $30bn (£23.7bn) deal. J&J, which is the world’s biggest healthcare group, is also funding a new research and development company headed by chief executive […]
A healthcare analytics startup known for the last six years as Medivo has rebranded itself as an artificial intelligence company called Prognos . As part of the relaunch, New York-based Prognos is making an aggressive push into the payer market to augment its predictive analytics work with life sciences […]
TORONTO (Reuters) – Some of Canada’s largest corporations and top executives launched two separate initiatives this week, investing millions of dollars into startup programs they hope will help stem a brain drain in fields like artificial intelligence and financial technology. NextAI, which was unveiled on Wednesday, and Diagram, announced […]
Above: Vietnam war veterans pose for a photo at the World War II memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Last spring the startup Flow Health began a five-year contract with the Department of Veteran Affairs to examine all historic and ongoing medical records. The startup will use […]
Anna could not figure out what is wrong with her: in spite of being generally healthy, she has been sweating during sleep for days, she had lost some weight although she gave up her diet a while ago and she has been feeling mortifyingly tired for a while. It […]
LONDON — Johnson & Johnson , the world’s largest health care company, said on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire the Swiss biotechnology company Actelion for $30 billion in cash, bolstering its roster of treatments for rare diseases. The agreement came after negotiations in which Johnson & Johnson […]
If you’re worried about the possibility of skin cancer , you might not have to depend solely on the keen eye of a dermatologist to spot signs of trouble. Stanford researchers (including tech luminary Sebastian Thrun ) have discovered that a deep learning algorithm is about as effective as […]