FILE – This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. T(AP Photo/Reed … [+] Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu Amazon Wednesday closed its $3.9 billion acquistion of One Medical, bringing the giant online retailer into the hotly competitive business of owning primary care physcian practiecs. The deal means Amazon will now provide One Medical’s “in office and 24/7 virtual care services, on-site labs, and programs for preventive care, chronic care management, common illnesses, and mental health concerns,” the companies said Wednesday. “If you fast forward 10 years from now, people are not going to believe how primary care was administered,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said. “For decades, you called your doctor, made an appointment three or four weeks out, drove 15-20 minutes to the doctor, parked your car, signed in and waited several minutes in reception, eventually were placed in an exam room, where you waited another 10-15 minutes before the doctor came in, saw you for five to ten minutes and prescribed medicine, and then you drove 20 minutes to the pharmacy to pick it up—and that’s if you […]

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Stepping into Air France’s new business cabin is like checking into a mini luxury hotel suite in the sky. With full-flat seats that lie down to nearly 6.5 feet long, a push-button sliding door for privacy, and elevated dining from French chefs who’ve helmed Michelin-starred restaurants, every detail is focused on making passengers in the 48 seats feel completely pampered. While fully enclosed seats have become a growing trend among business cabin offers, paired with the Paris-based carrier’s signature flair for style and service, the experience feels a notch above others. “With our new business cabin, we offer a new standard of comfort,” says Fabien Pelous, Air France’s senior vice president of customer experience. “The seats ensure optimal privacy for each passenger.” The first of 12 Boeing 777-300s equipped with the upgraded class took off from Paris ‘ Charles de Gaulle Airport to New York City’ s John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 20, and now runs on one of the six daily flights in each direction, the 5:30 p.m. Paris-bound flight from NYC and the 8:30 a.m. departure the opposite way. It also runs on selects routes to Rio de Janeiro and Dakar, Senegal . While the […]

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Courtesy iStock A new three-year strategic plan from the region’s economic development agency aims to create and retain 4,000 jobs and generate $500 million in capital investments. The Right Place Inc. announced its new strategic plan Tuesday, Feb. 21, to a group of 240 investors. The crux of the plan aims to retain and create 4,000 jobs by the end of 2025. The Right Place’s region covers eight West Michigan counties, including Kent, Ottawa, Allegan and Muskegon counties. The plan also hopes to draw $550 million in capital investments and $100 million in community development investments in the same time period. “From both internal research conducted and stakeholder conversations held, we see that greater Grand Rapids has a great deal of opportunity in the years to come,” the report reads. “While by some measures — such as gross regional product growth — pre-pandemic momentum has slowed, our region’s growth still stands above most of our fellow Michigan metros. “As we look onward to become the growth leader in the Midwest, we must continue to tackle longstanding issues impacting the overall competitiveness of the region, such as industry diversification, capacity for innovation and talent retention.” Ernst & Young and more […]

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What You Need To Know Bloomberg Businessweek , as part of its commitment to reporting on graduate level business education, examines and reports on the ways in which MBA programs are evolving and how MBA grads are approaching their careers and work. Highlights of this coverage can be found here. By The Numbers Growth in median earnings, between 2018 and 2022, of MBA grads six years post-graduation ($160,000 to $205,000 annually) Growth in median earnings, between 2018 and 2022, of all full-time US workers ($46,039 to $54,666 annually) Overall inflation from 2018 to 2022 Why It Matters Business school leaders and educators have been in a state of constant adjustment over the past three years. In reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, they developed new protocols, incorporated digital tools for remote learning — these and other efforts were focused on ensuring seamless education at the level expected. By the fall of 2022, most programs were cautiously approaching a fuller return to on-campus learning. Beyond the challenge posed by the pandemic, schools and MBA programs have grappled with putting forth a persuasive value proposition that solidifies their purpose. A confluence of factors at this moment — climate change, rising inequality, political […]

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“It’s free and always will be,” Facebook vowed on its landing page for nearly a decade. The world’s largest social network still is. But from this week its users and those of its sister app, Instagram, will have the option of paying $11.99 a month for a “verified” account, buying them better customer service, more widely distributed posts and a blue badge next to their name. The subscription is the latest example of a growing trend. Last June Snapchat , a messaging app popular among 20-somethings, launched a $3.99 plan called Snapchat+. In December Twitter relaunched Twitter Blue, an $8-per-month service. Like Meta’s offering, both offer an assortment of perks, the most significant being a more prominent place for the user’s posts in the feeds of others. It is hardly surprising that ad-supported networks are looking to diversify their sources of revenue. After years of non-stop growth the online-advertising business has hit a speed bump. The great one-off shift of ad budgets from offline locations, like newspapers, to the web is mostly complete. And since 2021 mobile advertising has been hampered by anti-tracking rules pioneered by Apple, which make it harder for apps like Facebook to target ads and […]

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Apple Although 65% of managed service providers (MSPs) expect their business customers to increase the use of Macs over the next 12 months, many companies may not be managing their devices well, according to new survey data from Addigy . Apple is the only vendor to see market share growth in both PC and mobile devices during the past year, which has translated into growing Mac market share even as the overall PC market declines . Yet more proof of Apple’s growth in enterprise IT Moving out of the current slump, Apple’s advantage is that next-generation employees already prefer the company , certainly in the US. Those born after 1996 now represent around 34% of US iPhone owners , which makes them far more likely to use a Mac . That’s reflected in the world of MSPs, Addigy explains. It claims the number of Apple devices in use across managed devices has also significantly increased in the last year; 76.1% of MSPs report an increase in the number of Apple devices in their fleets. It’s also interesting the extent to which this growing use comes from the top , with C-suite executives now the second-largest group of Apple users […]

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ReportLinker Segmented By Type (Water Based, Oil/Solvent Based), By Composition (Organic, Inorganic), By Application (Power Generation, Oil & Gas Refinery, Pulp & Paper, Metalwork & Mining, Chemical Processing, Desalination Plant, Automotive Coolants & Lubricants, Automotive Fuel), By Region. New York, Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Corrosion Inhibitors Market- Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2018-2028" – https://www.reportlinker.com/p06373095/?utm_source=GNW Global corrosion inhibitors market stood at USD8487.86 million in 2022 and is anticipated to increase at a CAGR rate of 4.11% through 2028, due to increasing demand from various end user industries including oil and gas, agriculture, and others. Corrosion Inhibitors, also known as anti-corrosive, is a chemical composition which is mixed with liquid to lower the corrosion rate of a material.It is typically used on metal or alloy that comes across in contact with the fluid. It is a typical method of preventing corrosion that involves the enhancement of a coating and is frequently called a passivation layer, which blocks the access of the corrosive chemical to the metal. It is a preventative measure to make metal corrosion accessible and is deemed to be the first line of defence against corrosion. […]

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A.R.I.’s Fund Brings Exclusive Access to Wealth Advisors and Affluent Clients for First Time LOS ANGELES, February 21, 2023 –( BUSINESS WIRE )– Applied Real Intelligence LLC (A.R.I.) , an investment management company based in Los Angeles, has launched its A.R.I. Venture Debt Opportunities Fund for Qualified Clients in response to significant interest from Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), wealth advisors, and their affluent clients who are seeking higher returns, greater safety, and low correlation to other assets in their portfolios. "Venture debt has delivered annual returns of 15% to 20%-plus with loss rates of less than 0.25% over the last two decades. Moreover, its returns have been less volatile and exhibited minimal correlation with other asset classes, establishing it as a highly effective investment strategy for leading lenders like Silicon Valley Bank, Hercules Capital, Western Technology Investment, and now A.R.I.’s Qualified Client Fund. Considering the increasing demand for capital from startups, rising interest rates, and reduced availability of venture capital, the current opportunity is unparalleled. We already have an excellent pipeline of very attractive deals to fund and anticipate that the next few years will be among the best in the history of venture debt," said Zack Ellison , […]

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K risten M. Hege, MD, is one of those rare individuals who excels at most of her endeavors. She can get something done herself, and she can exhibit the leadership necessary to bring teams together to tackle problems that cannot be solved alone. Hege is a physician, research scientist, teacher and mentor, as well as a wife and mother of two daughters. In her free time, she likes to scale mountains — or sometimes strap on a pair of skis and carve her own groove on the way back down. Hege — senior vice president of early clinical development for hematology/oncology and cell therapy at Bristol Myers Squibb — helped develop idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma; Bristol Myers Squibb, 2seventybio), the first commercially available chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for treatment of advanced multiple myeloma. The development of B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-targeted CAR T-cell therapies like idecabtagene vicleucel — often called ide-cel — may be the most clinically impactful advance for the disease. “An opportunity for cure — I think that’s why we are all in this,” Hege told Healio | Cell Therapy Next. The success of leading Bristol Myers Squibb’s ide-cel clinical program from first patient treated to regulatory approval […]

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Lockheed wants to use AI and rapid connectivity to make firefighting tools—like this Los Angeles … [+] Copyright 2009 AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. James D. Taiclet, Lockheed Martin LMT +0.3% Corporation’s Chairman, president and CEO, wants his company to solve America’s big problems. Taiclet, who took on the job about two years ago, is aligning his vast portfolio of national security platforms and high-powered mission integration systems to address what he calls “21 st Century Security.” According to Taiclet, “21 st Century Security” offers a broader vision of where large defense contractors can quickly deliver and apply integrated, mission-focused defense capabilities to complex problem sets outside the traditional defense sphere. Taiclet is focusing his company on wildfire fighting, addressing the tough integration challenges recently highlighted by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . It is no easy task. While Lockheed Martin has immense expertise as an integrator of complex technologies, Lockheed Martin is oriented towards selling big things to a handful of big Federal customers. To move the needle in the company’s massive balance sheet, Lockheed’s business units are focused on developing and supporting boutique systems […]

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