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| Jan 26, 2026 | Donald Trump ushers in 2026 with series of white-collar pardons | US President Donald Trump has pardoned or reduced the sentences of 10 people convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes over the past 10 days.
Out of the 21 clemency grants Trump has issued since 15 January, 10 were for people convict... |
| May 10, 2025 | Affirm's Rollercoaster Ride: Navigating 0% Loans and Investor Skepticism | Affirm, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant, is in the spotlight. The company’s recent forecast sent its stock tumbling, leaving investors on edge. A 13% drop in shares on a single day is a wake-up call. The market is reacting to a mix of w... |
| May 9, 2025 | Google would need to shift up to 2,000 employees for antitrust remedies, search head says | Google’s search head Liz Reid said it would need to divert 20% of its search team to carry out some of the remedies proposed by the DOJ.
Reid said the move would create privacy risks.
The comments show the first calculation the company has ... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | What Ancient Roman Entrepreneurs Can Teach Today's Founders About Survival and Long-Term Success The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial strategy and ethical leadership in modern business. | Entrepreneurship didn't start in Silicon Valley — it dates back thousands of years. Before venture capital firms and tech unicorns, another breed of entrepreneurs mastered the art of business: the publicani of the Roman Empire. These privat... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Investors will be ‘miles ahead’ if they avoid these 3 things, ‘How Not to Invest’ author says | Many people are bad investors largely because they aren’t skeptical enough: They react emotionally and they don’t understand compound interest, said Barry Ritholtz, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management.
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| Mar 11, 2025 | The Art of Balancing Founder Mode and Brand Trust: A Path to Sustainable Success | In the world of entrepreneurship, two distinct mindsets often clash: the founder mode and the manager mode. Each has its merits, but navigating between them is like walking a tightrope. The founder mode embodies passion, innovation, and a h... |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Why Most Branding Advice Is Wrong — and What Actually Works Forget the buzzwords, the fluff and the empty mantras. Real branding isn't about catchy slogans, slick logos or vague notions of authenticity — it's about trust. If your brand strategy isn't driving credibility, customer preference and ...... | The branding industry is built on a lie.
Not an outright, malicious deception but a feel-good fantasy designed to make companies feel like they're accomplishing something when, in reality, they're spinning their wheels.
Most branding advice... |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Fraudsters: History’s Most Notorious Scammers – George Albert Ancira, Bernard Madoff, Sam Bankman-Fried, George Ancira Trabold, and Elizabeth Holmes | Share
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This article examines the lives and schemes of some of the most infamous scammers in history, highlighting their elaborate deceptions and the staggering financial losses they caused. From Bernard Madoff’s recor... |
| Feb 24, 2025 | Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes loses her appeal | The ruling caps for now a saga that captivated the nation since the charismatic entrepreneur, known for adopting the black turtleneck of legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was charged with criminal fraud in 2018. Over the six years, Hol... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | The Unspoken Truths of Startup Failures — 10 Cautionary Tales That Will Make You Rethink What Success Truly Means Behind every failed startup lies a story of overlooked pitfalls, unforeseen challenges and hard-earned lessons. Discover the realities entrepreneurs rarely talk about — and how they ...... | The startup world is often painted as a land of endless possibilities, where big dreams meet big checks. Entrepreneurs and investors alike revel in stories of unicorn valuations and rapid success. But there's a side to startups that's less ... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | The Rise and Fall of Ozy Media: A Cautionary Tale of Deception and Consequences | Carlos Watson, once a celebrated figure in media, now faces nearly a decade behind bars. His downfall is a stark reminder of the thin line between ambition and deceit. Ozy Media, the startup he co-founded, was once hailed as a beacon of inn... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Former TV host Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media | Watson, who faced a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison and potentially as much as 37 years, remains free for now on $3 million bond. He is to surrender to prison March 28. Any restitution will be determined after a hearing in... |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Где грань между амбициозностью и безумием в проекте? | Посвящается менеджменту одной компании, где я отработал испытательный срок и получил обратную связь — ты слишком хорош для нас.
Где грань между амбициозностью и безумием в проекте? Это вопрос, с которым часто сталкиваются как начинающие, та... |
| Sep 4, 2024 | David Boies’ Baseless Lawsuit Blames Meta Because Kids Like Instagram Too Much | In today’s episode of ‘Won’t Someone Think of the Children?!’, celebrity attorney David Boies is leading a baseless charge against Meta, claiming Instagram is inherently harmful to kids. Spoiler alert: it’s not. This one was filed last mont... |
| Aug 9, 2024 | Building Bridges: The Power of Employee Engagement in Today's Workforce | In the bustling world of business, employee engagement is the lifeblood that keeps organizations thriving. It’s not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. As companies navigate the shifting sands of the modern workplace, understanding and imple... |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Kapitaleffizienz als Schlüssel zu nachhaltigem Erfolg | In der dynamischen Welt der Startups jagen viele den Traum, ein Unicorn zu werden – ein Unternehmen mit einer Bewertung von über einer Milliarde Euro. Doch ist diese magische Zahl wirklich das ultimative Zeichen für Erfolg? Abseits dieser g... |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Don't Fall for These 3 Marketing Myths — Here's What to Do Instead Here's how entrepreneurs can leverage marketing to boost sales, help maximize their companies' potential and enable internal alignment around goals. | Startups fail for a lot of reasons. Bad marketing is one of them — and it's something entrepreneurs don't pay nearly as much attention to as product development or raising capital.
I'm a professor at a leading business school, Babson Colleg... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Silicon Valley's next great fraud trial begins | Michael Lynch on Monday goes on trial in San Francisco for allegedly defrauding Hewlett-Packard during the $11.7 billion sale of Autonomy, an enterprise software company he co-founded and led as CEO.
Why it matters: This is the highest-prof... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | A new ABC documentary and podcast about Theranos features never-before-aired depositions | The rise and fall of Theranos, the blood-testing company whose technology never worked despite its claims otherwise, has already been covered extensively. Most notably, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who broke open the story o... |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Sight Diagnostics uses computer vision to analyze blood samples | A single device that can perform a slew of tests on a prick of blood was the promise of Theranos, a diagnostics startup that was found to have misled investors about its tech’s capabilities and whose founders were recently charged with frau... |
| Sep 4, 2018 | WSJ reports that Theranos will finally dissolve | Theranos is reportedly finally closing down for good, nearly three years after a Wall Street Journal investigation called its blood testing technology into question. The WSJ said the company, whose dramatic downfall spawned a best-selling b... |
| Mar 14, 2018 | Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with massive, ‘years-long fraud’ | Years after it was reported that the SEC was looking into improprieties at the once high-flying blood-testing company Theranos, its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and the company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, have been formally ch... |
| Dec 24, 2017 | Theranos Secures $100 Million in New Funding from Fortress Capital | Call it a Christmas miracle – albeit of a rather perverse sort.
Theranos, the digraced medical-technology startup that infamously inflated the capabilities of its devices, has secured $100 million in new funding in the form of a loan.
Paid ... |
| Dec 23, 2017 | Theranos gets $100 million in debt financing to carry it through 2018, with some caveats | Theranos has secured $100 million in debt financing. Yes, someone gave the blood testing company known for handing out questionable test results money.
First reported by Business Insider, the company reportedly told investors it had secured... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Learning from failure: What Theranos, Interleukin Genetics, & Courtagen can teach us about IVDs | Developing and commercializing an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) is a complex enterprise involving numerous tasks accomplished by a variety of specialized and knowledgeable individuals. Generally, the process can be broken down into product conc... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Fitbit’s decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables | As the market leader, Fitbit has always been regarded as being synonymous with wearables in general.
Its launch as a public company was at a point when the hype of wearables was at a peak with claims of the technology bring about a revoluti... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | A prominent Silicon Valley investment banker is suing Theranos, and seeking class-action status | Theranos, the 13-year-old, Palo Alto-based health technology company, is being sued by two more investors who say they were lied to about Theranos’s health and its prospects by founder Elizabeth Holmes and former president and COO, Ramesh “... |
| Nov 8, 2016 | Walgreens is suing Theranos for $140 million in Delaware | Walgreens has filed a lawsuit against blood analysis company Theranos.
Walgreens was once Theranos’ biggest partner and the startup used several of the drugstore chain’s Arizona store locations as testing sites. However, Walgreens formally ... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | The SEC gets the case it’s been waiting for in Silicon Valley | Not so long ago, Theranos was flying high, its claims that it was upending the medical diagnostics business largely accepted by the public. Behind the scenes, however, some employees were growing wary of those claims, with at least one even... |
| Oct 3, 2016 | The 3 Key Challenges Health Tech Startups Face Today | While healthcare and health tech startup funding has broken the record high of $3.9 billion this year, and consumer demand is growing exponentially in numerous areas, a lot of entrepreneurs still feel reluctant about stepping into these mar... |
| Sep 4, 2016 | The biotech empires of Silicon Valley and Europe | Bérénice Magistretti Contributor
Bérénice Magistretti is a Swiss freelance writer based in San Francisco. She focuses on startups in Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and emerging markets.
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| Aug 26, 2016 | Theranos gives notice that it will appeal CMS sanctions | In its latest statement Theranos wrote:
Theranos is not conducting patient testing at its Newark facility. In addition, since CMS originally announced the imposition of sanctions, Theranos has made substantial progress toward correcting the... |
| Aug 2, 2016 | Theranos plunges ahead into a murky future | The battered diagnostics company Theranos this week tried to pivot from its failed past as a blood testing company to a future developing lab equipment.
But that future looks quite murky.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes gave an optimistic pre... |
| Jul 11, 2016 | Theranos’ weirdest sin: Sloppy record keeping | Give Theranos some credit. After months of waging a counter PR attack to blunt negatives stories, the company has shifted gears and appears to be trying to be more transparent.
For instance, in announcing the latest sanctions by federal reg... |
| Jul 9, 2016 | Theranos CEO banned from operating lab for 2 years | Things are not looking good for the once-lauded blood testing startup Theranos. Following an investigation, US federal health regulators have imposed stiff penalties against the firm, including barring CEO Elizabeth Holmes from owning a lab... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been barred from operating labs for 2 years | Redeem now
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Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the medical-testing company Theranos, has been barred from operating medical labs for two years, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Theranos has been the subject of high-profile media cover... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes banned by regulators from running lab for two years | That thud you just heard was the reputation of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes finally hitting the sidewalk after a year-long fall from its lofty perch.
In a sweeping condemnation of Theranos, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes banned for two years from industry she aimed to transform | Federal regulators have banned Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least two years.
Theranos rose to startup stardom after promising accurate blood test results with just a prick of the fin... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | ‘Silicon Valley arrogance’? Google misfires as it strives to turn Star Trek fiction into reality | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google employees, squeezed onto metal risers and standing in the back of a meeting room, erupted in cheers as newly arrived executive Andrew Conrad announced they would try to turn science fiction into reality: The t... |
| May 20, 2016 | Morning Read: Theranos may be drowning, but it’s hiring for a planned expansion | Yep, even as it becomes increasingly apparent that the emperor has no clothes, the formerly high-flying unicorn is currently advertising nearly 200 job openings — including some at a planned new laboratory in Pennsylvania. A company spokesw... |
| May 19, 2016 | Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Needs An Assist. Literally. | Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of embattled blood-testing company Theranos, needs a lot of help right now. And that apparently includes a new executive assistant.
The company today began advertising for the job via LinkedIn, at around th... |
| May 19, 2016 | Theranos plans bold expansion even as it reels from new setbacks | As the ship keeps sinking, Theranos hasn’t stopped shuffling the deck chairs.
The Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing has had so many setbacks lately that it’s getting hard to keep track. Theranos is under cr... |
| May 19, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence and Agency Bonds
Artificial Intelligence and Agency Bonds | Artificial intelligence.
Look, Two Sigma is a big smart hedge fund that has done well and made its founders rich and has prospective recruits wear virtual-reality headsets for some reason. And I am sure they are wonderful at the artificial ... |
| May 18, 2016 | Theranos reportedly voids two years of results from its Edison blood-testing devices | Troubled bio-tech startup Theranos has told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) it voided two years of results from the blood tests that it once staked its future on, reports the Wall Street Journal. All results taken from ... |
| May 12, 2016 | Theranos’ COO retires as the troubled bio-tech startup overhauls its organizational structure | Sunny Balwani, the president and chief operating officer of Theranos, the beleaguered medical diagnostics startup currently under federal investigation for allegedly making misleading claims about its blood analysis technology, is stepping ... |
| Apr 19, 2016 | What to Know About Theranos' Rise and Fall | News this week of an investigation by federal officials into blood-testing company Theranos marked the latest bump in the months-long struggles of a company once considered to have a significant stake in the future of medical diagnostics. S... |
| Apr 7, 2016 | Theranos adds a bunch of qualified medical experts and scientists to the board | Theranos has taken a pretty damning hit in a string of bad news reports over the past year but it looks like the one drop blood analysis company is trying to turn things around.
Theranos announced this morning it would add eight medical and... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Government report details Theranos quality control issues | A government report released late Thursday accuses Theranos of producing inaccurate test results, of failing to meet its own lab standards and hiring unqualified personnel.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service visited Theranos’ mai... |
| Mar 16, 2016 | What Theranos has to lose by hosting a Hillary Clinton fundraiser | WASHINGTON — It might seem like a political blunder for Hillary Clinton to accept a fundraiser hosted at Theranos, the embattled biotech company that’s been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately.
But the greater risk could be to Ther... |
| Mar 9, 2016 | Theranos competitor HealthTell raises $26M for single-drop-of-blood diagnostics that profile immune response | Prior investors in the company include Vital Venture Capital, Paladin Capital Group, Acadia Woods Partners, Cambridge Global Capital and the Broe Group. MedCity News is waiting to hear back from HealthTell to learn about how it’ll use this ... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | Theranos Doomsday Clock: A full timeline of its rise and fall (Updated) | Will Theranos bleed out? Time will tell — which is why we’ve assembled a comprehensive timeline (doomsday clock?) of this unicorn’s stealthy rise and meteoric fall. We’ll keep this timeline updated as news continues to emerge about Theranos... |
| Feb 1, 2016 | Is Theranos finished? Watch for these 5 telltale signs | Is Theranos done?
The Silicon Valley upstart wowed the medical world with a whopping $9 billion valuation, a supremely media-savvy CEO and the promise that it could revolutionize health care by using just a few drops of blood to run scores ... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Thanks to Theranos, Health Tech Is Under More Scrutiny | “Not only can the company itself come under scrutiny, but also those who sell and market the products. This is why many in the industry are calling for transparency as of late.”
Theranos was once the poster child for health care companies t... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Is this Silicon Valley success story a tech revolution in healthcare or marketing hype cloaked in secrecy? | If one company were to symbolise the entire ethos of Silicon Valley, it would be Theranos.
Founded by Elizabeth Holmes who was 19 at the time, the company set out to “reinvent” the laboratory blood testing industry by using “revolutionary f... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Is Theranos a tech revolution in healthcare? | |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Health Agency Says Theranos Lab Practices Pose “Immediate Jeopardy” To Patient Safety | More bad news for Theranos: A federal health agency has declared that the blood test company’s “deficient practices … pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.”
In a letter sent to Theranos on January 25, the Centers for Medicar... |
| Jan 20, 2016 | These are the key players in the home health testing market | Source: Kalorama Information
Direct-to-consumer laboratory testing is on the rise, as consumers become more educated and proactive about their own health. The market’s expected to grow past $350 million by 2020 – a significant increase over... |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Theracos – not Theranos – raises $25M for diabetes drug | The company is currently in the midst of recruiting participants with type 2 diabetes for a Phase 2b dosing trial. Its experimental drug, called bexagliflozin, has been tested in studies in the U.S., Europe, Russia and Japan.
It works in a ... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Medical Test Validity Will Be Debated In 2016: 5 Storylines To Watch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Despite lots of headlines, an underappreciated storyline this year was the undercurrent surrounding the validity of medical tests:
—The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a ... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | The Theranos scandal should be a wake-up call. Here are 4 reasons it won’t be | Not even the holiday slowdown could bring a reprieve for the beleaguered blood-testing company Theranos.
This week brought the latest installment of the Wall Street Journal’s ongoing investigation into the company, this time detailing accus... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | 3 people to watch in Silicon Valley in 2016 | As the year winds down, STAT reporters are taking a look at the stories they’re most eager to track in 2016. We’ll be running these daily through Dec. 31. Look for more New Year’s predictions here.
Silicon Valley is already the center of ve... |
| Dec 26, 2015 | Theranos Wellness Centers Aren’t Using “Nanotainers” At This Time | A Theranos testing center in Mesa, Arizona has informed me they are not allowed to use Theranos’ proprietary equipment to test for herpes simplex 1, the only test the FDA has so far given Theranos the green light to test on their own techno... |
| Dec 21, 2015 | Theranos’ Only FDA Approved Test Is Also Under Scrutiny After Ex-Employee Complaint | Two former Theranos employees have filed complaints so far with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) over alleged faulty test results. The latest complaint is aimed at a test for he... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | What Theranos Can Teach Healthcare Startups | Elizabeth Holmes seemed to have it all. In 2003, the 31-year-old Stanford dropout founded Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the diagnostic industry by testing for 240 diseases with just a few drops of blood. Holmes said her... |
| Nov 11, 2015 | Theranos Disputes WSJ’s Accuracy In Report Claiming Secret $350 Million Safeway Deal | Safeway grocery stores dropped a $350 million deal with Theranos, according to the Wall Street Journal. Theranos put out a statement today disputing the Journal’s report but failed once again to dispel the claim.
“We were disappointed to se... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | A CEO’s Guide To Group Health 2.0 | Alex Frommeyer Contributor
Alex Frommeyer is the founder and CEO of Beam, a different kind of dental care plan for employers large and small.
While many new healthcare technologies show great promise, few have been made widely available. CE... |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Walgreens Halts Theranos Testing Center Expansion | Walgreens won’t be going forward with any plans to open up more Theranos Wellness Centers until it can “understand the truth,” behind recent questioning of the blood work startup’s technology, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Walgreens... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Theranos heavily rebuts the WSJ – but do we buy it? | First off, Theranos relies on user testimonials as a mark of its accuracy – adding that it sent Carreyrou a selection of these reviews this past July. But customer service aside, can a typical user gauge the accuracy of a diagnostic?
The Th... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | This week on MedHeads: Will Theranos successfully rise above the criticism? | Tune in to MedHeads at 4 pm Eastern Friday when the reporters discuss whether Theranos has been dealt a debilitating setback or just a flesh wound.
Watch the gab session via the YouTube embed below or on our Google Hangout on Air page. Join... |
| Oct 21, 2015 | Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes fires back at report attacking her company’s blood-testing tech | Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of blood-testing startup Theranos, has been in hot water since a scathing Wall Street Journal report about her company appeared last week. Today she was interviewed onstage at a WSJ conference and gave her side of ... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Theranos Continues Damage Control Messaging | Silicon Valley blood-test technology startup Theranos has once again responded to allegations made by the Wall Street Journal over questionable test results. Unfortunately, little of that response has to do with the allegations.
Theranos fo... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | Theranos Refutes Claims Its Blood-Test Tech Is Unreliable | Update: Theranos has reportedly dialed back its 240 blood tests to just one. According to the Wall Street Journal, a source close to the matter told the paper that Theranos has caved under regulatory pressure from the Food and Drug Administ... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | Is your chemotherapy working? This simple test could tell you | It takes several months, and a combination of imaging and in some cases, biomarker-based blood tests, to determine whether the chemotherapy or immunotherapy is actually working. Even then, sometimes these tests aren’t effective in patients ... |
| Jul 18, 2015 | Theranos Gains FDA Approval To Test For Herpes Outside The Lab | You could test your blood for health related disease in the comfort of your home soon. Theranos, the startup that only requires a few drops of blood to test for hundreds of different health-related diseases, received approval from the Food ... |
| Jul 16, 2015 | FDA makes it easier for Theranos to conduct testing outside of certified labs | A representative for Theranos told MedCity News earlier this month that Theranos has committed to submit all of their diagnostics for FDA review, with well over 100 pre-submissions underway. So, by extension, this CLIA Waiver could ultimate... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | Morning Read: Theranos inks deal with Capital Blue Cross, gene therapy to treat deafness | — Theranos/Capital Blue Cross
Jeffrey Holt and his team at Harvard Medical School are the first to use gene therapy to treat hereditary deafness.
Inherited conditions account for at least half of all childhood deafness. More than 70 genes a... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | Theranos gets first FDA clearance, emerges from secrecy | The approval is certainly validation that Theranos’ science, which has come into question, does meet with the FDA’s rigorous standards. And unlike therapeutics, FDA approval for diagnostics is not mandatory – meaning this step is a move tow... |
| Jun 23, 2015 | Five conspicuous omissions from MIT Tech Review’s 50 smartest companies | …we did not have trouble finding big ideas. To make the list, a company must have truly innovative technology and a business model that is both practical and ambitious, with the result that it has set the agenda in its field over the past 1... |
| May 11, 2015 | HealthTell’s marketing language jabs at Theranos (also, it’s raising $5M for its own single-drop-of-blood diagnostics) | HealthTell’s language is pretty amusing: “HealthTell takes pride in being a transparent, data driven company passionate about sharing our diagnostic technology with the world.” Generally the opposite approach of Theranos, no? It’s also curi... |
| Feb 28, 2015 | Retail could do to health care what Uber has done to taxis | Uber, the poster child of the sharing economy, came out of nowhere and managed to overhaul the traditional taxi business in just a few short years. It now has a valuation of approximately $41 billion.
Now Wall Street is searching for the ne... |
| Feb 12, 2015 | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards | The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards ceremony took place on February 5th at the Louise M Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
In case you missed the chance to watch it online, you can watch it here:
Welcoming the winners
Showcasing and rewa... |
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| Jan 9, 2015 | Consumerizing medicine: Are patient-initiated blood tests the future? | By Erin Horan
The traditional model of health care has always been pretty linear: 1) observe your symptoms; 2) schedule a visit with your doctor; 3) meet with your doctor, answer questions, possibly have bloodwork or other testing; 4) follo... |
| Dec 22, 2014 | Best of 2014: Theranos secretive lab test startup | Toward the end of 2013 and into the start of 2014, Theranos made an impact in the industry and got some pretty hearty media attention when Wired published a pretty extensive interview with founder Elizabeth Holmes. The question really was h... |
| Dec 15, 2014 | What Startup To Build In Bangladesh: How Can We Fix Our Healthcare System? | Access to healthcare is one of the basic human needs. In a world where innovation is abundant and access is a matter of mere willingness no one should die for lack of treatment. But it happens regularly in Bangladesh and many other places o... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Eric Topol calls out 6 startups that are giving healthcare power to the people | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | The game-changers of Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit | On the cardiovascular side, there’s hope for high-cholesterol patients who don’t respond to statins. A new class of monoclonal antibodies, called PCSK9 inhibitors, are certainly more costly than standard of care – but they’re showing to be ... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | Here are some of the top digital health CEOs according to reviews on Glassdoor | I also noted when the CEO rating had been updated, when listed.
Evolent Health CEO Frank Williams came out on top with a 98 percent approval rating (Oct 21)
Castlight Health CEO Giovanni Colella, 95 percent
athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, 8... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | Not All Hot Startups Live Up To Their “Change The World” Billing—And We Have Data | There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangi... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | TEDMED Hive offers new gadgets and ideas to make healthcare less annoying | Mana Nutrition used a Rube Goldberg machine to promote its employer wellness program that ties physical activity to helping charities address hunger in African nations, in this case, bicycling.
TedCas, a Spanish company and part of StartUp ... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Theranos CEO wants to make blood tests less painful and easier to get (video) | “We see a world where everyone knows ahead of time how much a test will cost,” Holmes said. “By making the costs of tests so low, it becomes possible to engage individuals in the testing process.”
A company that can attract to their board o... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Executives At Disrupt Say The Future Of Healthcare Depends On Testing, Sensing And Communication | From Theranos on Monday to a panel of esteemed startup chief executives on Wednesday, the discussion around healthcare at this year’s Disrupt has been about the ways in which new diagnostic and communication tools are transforming delivery ... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Secretive lab test startup Theranos has everyone talking but isn’t saying much | Then there’s the value proposition. Theranos says it can run up to 30 common laboratory tests within hours using just a few drops of blood. Automating the processing of those samples cuts out much of the opportunity for human error that occ... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | Theranos raises $28.5M for device tracking effects of drugs on patients | Theranos, a Menlo Park company developing devices that enable healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies to track patients’ responses to drugs, has raised $28.5 million of a $30 million planned third round, according to a filing ... |
| I visited a Theranos 'wellness center' over the weekend to get my blood drawn – it blew away my expectations | Melia Robinson/Tech Insider
I've never been afraid of needles, but giving blood is no trip to Disney World.
Anytime a phlebotomist tries to sink a needle into my arm to collect blood, my plump veins roll away. Doctors stick me again and aga... |
| Theranos gives notice that it will appeal CMS sanctions | Theranos continues to be full of surprises. After the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hit the blood testing business with sanctions, which included revoking the company’s license to operate its Newark, California laboratory, the ... |
| Best of 2014: Theranos secretive lab test startup | MedCity News has checked out the data and put together a list of which stories got the most online traffic on the site in 2014 – which demonstrates some trends and what readers really wanted to know more about. As the year wraps up, we are ... |
| FDA makes it easier for Theranos to conduct testing outside of certified labs | Theranos just received an FDA clearance that’ll allow its newly approved herpes diagnostic to be used outside traditional clinical laboratories. This CLIA Waiver is a sign that the storied single-blood-drop testmaker will be able accelerate... |
| Theranos heavily rebuts the WSJ – but do we buy it? | Theranos is going on the offense in its feud with the Wall Street Journal, which last week ripped the company’s diagnostics practices apart in a damning exposé. Theranos today published lengthy rebuttal, calling much of the WSJ piece “simpl... |
