Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurance companies, creating an entity valued at $6B
Eversana, a company that helps drugmakers sell their medicines, has acquired a smaller firm called Waltz Health that helps employers …
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages. Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways. [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com : British...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction
But What Happens to Your Data? David Braue / Information Age : Biotech buys bankrupt DNA data firm 23andMe for $400m Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : Pharma giant Regeneron to buy genetics firm 23andMe f...
Dallas-based Bestow, which offers software and services to life insurance companies, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital
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The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers
GM must now obtain explicit user consent and offer an option to delete data, ensuring greater transparency and privacy for customers. Lilian Edwards / @lilianedwards : Even as she leaves office Lina K...
Paris-based Qantev, which offers AI-based claim management software for health and life insurance companies, raised a €30M Series B led by Blossom Capital
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Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021
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London-based Vitesse, which offers a treasury and payment platform for insurance companies, raised a $93M Series C led by KKR, after a $26M Series B in 2022
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GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars … Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social . X: @evan_greer , @ccanonne_ , ...
The AI boom has spurred law firms, hospitals, insurance companies, government agencies, and others to create chief AI officer roles to navigate the use of AI
Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.