DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Amazon announces new virtual healthcare service to help with allergies, acne and hair loss
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon is expanding its healthcare offerings following its deal to buy One Medical, this time by opening a new virtual care option to help with common conditions like allergies, acne and hair loss. The service does not yet accept insurance, but customers can use insurance to help pay for medications prescribed by a licensed clinician through the platform. To use the service, customers select the condition they're interested in speaking about and then choose a preferred provider. Customers can also use money from flexible spending accounts and healthcare spending accounts to pay for the service. The new program comes just a few months after Amazon announced it was shutting down Amazon Care, a different telehealth service, by the end of the year.

☆ Amidst the layoffs at Amazon, the company's ultra-secretive research lab is at risk of being shut. It's a sign things are changing 'dramatically' at the company.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Early last month, members of Amazon's secretive in-house research lab, Grand Challenge, were called into an unexpected video meeting. Weibel announced 3 of the 5 projects Grand Challenge was working on would shut down, effective immediately. When other team employees wanted to collaborate with the team, they needed additional approvals from its leadership. Amazon Glow was among the Grand Challenge projects to be discontinued at the end of this year. Getting support promoting Grand Challenge projects was a challenge too.

☆ The Rings of Pain: Amazon is looking where to cut costs. Here's how the company will decide who is put to the sword and who is spared.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon is looking for areas to cut costs, CFO Brian Olsavsky said. Amazon is "looking for areas where we can save money," he said on a conference call Thursday. Which divisions get the ax will be based in part on their ability -- or lack thereof -- to contribute to Amazon's growth, Olsavsky told reporters. Amazon Web Services posted 27% revenue growth last quarter, its slowest growth rate since Amazon began breaking out the division in its financial statements. Amazon's advertising division also saw revenue growth moderate compared to a year ago, to 30% – but it outperformed advertising behemoths Google and Facebook.

☆ Amazon slashes yet another division in attempt to cut costs, one day after share price bloodbath
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Katherine Long | Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon fired half of its Amp live radio division on Friday, notifying roughly 150 people they would need to take severance or find new jobs internally. Amazon is looking for ways to tighten its belt amid growing shipping costs and slackening consumer spending. The company reported weaker-than-expected sales and forecasts Thursday, causing its share price to tumble nearly 12%. Amazon fired roughly 150 people from its Amp live radio division Friday, one day after weaker-than-expected earnings caused its share price to plunge nearly 12%. The app allows users to broadcast their own live radio shows and has been courting content creators.

☆ Amazon healthcare salaries revealed: See how much bioengineering and health-data roles earn as the tech giant pushes into medicine and prepares to buy One Medical
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Katherine Long | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon hired many positions in healthcare informatics last quarter, according to H-1B visa filings. The new positions include nursing-informatics specialists, who typically manage patient data, and medical laboratory technicians. But the end of Amazon Care, which failed to gain as much traction as Amazon had hoped, coincides with an expansion of Amazon's healthcare ambitions. The company announced plans in July to purchase the One Medical chain of medical clinics for $3.9 billion. Data-privacy activists have registered concerns about the company's planned acquisition of One Medical, which would give Amazon control of huge amounts of patient data.

☆ Amazon, Meta, and other big tech firms have entered the 'Great Hesitation' — cutting hiring and other costs in fear of an economic downturn
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Rob Price | Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Leaders at large-cap tech companies are in an anxious waiting game, battening down the hatches as they prepare for the storm to hit. Some tech firms will be hurt moreAmong the biggest players in the tech industry, the impacts of a crash will not be felt evenly. "I look at these large tech companies, and over the last couple of years, obviously money's been free, everything got bloated, and all these tech companies — excluding Apple — have effectively doubled their head count over a three-year period, right? Beyond head count, tech companies are cutting back on extras, imperiling their famously lavish meal options. The largest tech companies are also signaling their anxiety by trimming budgets for their more experimental businesses and research projects.

☆ The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President of Lab126 Gregg Zehr retired in August, the same day as SVP of Alexa Tom Taylor. They are the latest high-profile executives to leave Amazon. Almost 90 VP or higher level executives have left Amazon since early 2021. Taylor and Zehr are the latest high-profile executives to leave Amazon. Zehr and Taylor's departures leave a big leadership hole at Amazon's personal devices business.

☆ Amazon shutters 'ORCA' robotics team and 'Explore' travel venture in its latest sign of a hyper-focus on frugality
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon is shuttering a virtual travel division and a warehouse robotics team, Insider has learned. Amazon is scrapping another warehouse robotics team, ORCA, amid a larger reduction in robotics personnel. It's not clear how many people worked on the ORCA team. In addition, the company is ending Amazon Explore, a virtual travel experiences platform launched amid pandemic lockdowns in late 2020. In an all-hands meeting this week, Amazon executives instructed employees to tighten their belts.

☆ Leaked Amazon slides instruct employees to 'double down on frugality' in all-hands meeting
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon urged frugality in an all-hands meeting this week, according to excerpts reviewed by Insider. The comments signify the tone shift at Amazon, as it tightens its belt in the face of a looming recession. Amazon's leadership team urged employees to "double down on frugality" in an internal all-hands meeting this week, according to slides and excerpts viewed by Insider. The slides instructed employees to "accomplish more with less," meaning to adjust hiring, reduce costs, and inventory levels. At the meeting, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy conveyed a similar message when asked about the economic downturn and its effect on Amazon's future investments.

☆ Amazon is cutting some robotics projects in a reorganization of its research efforts in this field. Canvas, which it bought for over $100 million, is the latest casualty.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon is consolidating robotics research projects to focus on those that help customers most. Amazon is shutting down Canvas, the warehouse robotics startup it acquired for over $100 million in 2019, Insider has learned, as the e-commerce giant continues to cut costs. Employees are being given the choice to transfer to a different team within Amazon or leave with severance pay. Last week, Amazon shut Scout, a mini home delivery robot it launched in 2019. The company has implemented a broader hiring freeze in its retail business too, while scaling back several warehouse expansion plans this year.

☆ The era of Big Tech moonshots is over. Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are pulling back on ambitious, risky long-term projects after many of them failed.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Hugh Langley | Eugene Kim | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have scaled back their ambitious "moonshot" projects. Moonshots like Google X and Amazon Grand Challenge allowed tech firms to build innovative projects. Before Amazon, Parviz led a similar team at Google called Google X. Page and Brin championed X projects they loved, helping them gain funding and headcount within the unit. Parviz, who created the once-hyped-up Google Glass, left Google X in 2014 to start Amazon's Grand Challenge.

☆ Amazon loses PillPack founders four years after acquisition of pharmacy startup
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

With Amazon Pharmacy, Prime customers in the United States can get their prescription medications shipped to their home for free. Two Amazon executives who played a formative role in the retail giant's push into health care are departing. After the acquisition, Parker and Cohen helped steer the launch of Amazon Pharmacy, the company's online pharmacy for delivering prescription medications in the U.S. Amazon has accelerated its push into health care in recent years, though not all of its efforts have been successful. The pharmacy business struggled to gain traction, and Amazon recently announced it would shutter its telehealth service Amazon Care after finding it wasn't a "complete enough offering" for customers.

☆ 8 companies Amazon, Microsoft, or Google might buy as they shop for deals amid the market downturn, including Workday, Unity, and Roku
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

That means Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud could be poised for a merger-and-acquisition spree. As for cloud acquisitions, analysts said Amazon's cloud unit didn't often buy companies. Cybersecurity has been a greater focus for Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud after the hack of the IT-software company SolarWinds in 2020. In 2019, Google purchased the data-analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion in cash under Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. With Kurian at the helm, bringing with him the Oracle acquisition playbook, Google Cloud may now have a bigger M&A appetite.

☆ Preşedintele Braziliei, Jair Bolsonaro, ales Personalitatea anului 2020 în Crimă Organizată şi Corupţie
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Proiectul de raportare a criminalităţii organizate şi corupţiei, fondat în 2006, a decis săptămâna aceasta ca titulatura să îi revină liderului populist. Într-un an în care concurenţa a fost una „istorică”, un juriu independent l-a ales pe Jair Bolsonaro. Până la finalul lui 2020, anchetele publicate de OCCRP au contribuit la returnarea a peste 7,3 miliarde de dolari, fonduri obţinute ilicit. În 2019, titlul de „Personalitatea anului în Crimă Organizată şi Corupţie” a fost obţinut de prim-ministrul maltez Joseph Muscat. OCCRP este o reţea de centre de investigaţii, mass-media şi jurnalişti care operează în Europa de Est, Caucaz, Asia Centrală şi America Centrală.

Persons: Drew Sullivan, american Donald Trump, OCCRP, Sullivan, Joseph Organizations: Joseph Muscat Locations: justiţie, Amazon, american, OCCRP, Europa de Est, Caucaz, Asia Centrală, America Centrală

Search resuls for: "Amazon Care"

14 mentions found