Every year, for the last 16 years, economists have come to Toulouse for the Digital Economics Conference to present cutting-edge research on just about everything digital. For those who don’t know Toulouse, or only that it is the headquarters of Airbus, the La Ville Rose is a...
The intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence (AI) was one of 2023’s most exciting storylines. Across sector-critical areas including medical imaging and pathology, telemedicine, personalized patient engagement, new drug discovery, remote monitoring, administrative tasks and EHR (electronic health record) data entry, even clinical decisioning and beyond, innovative software...
Blockchain solutions for supply chain management and digitized traceability are increasingly on the chopping block. While tech crypto purists continue to tout the transformative potential of blockchain technology, the Web3 architecture that also supports the cryptocurrency ecosystem, leading enterprise organizations are quietly shuttering pilot projects...
Catapulted from relative obscurity to mainstream status by COVID-19, telemedicine has obvious limitations in treating disease, but the emerging world of digital therapeutics is changing that. This nascent field is the next step for telemedicine, in which software and apps running on consumer electronics like...
July 14, 2022
Catapulted from relative obscurity to mainstream status by COVID-19, telemedicine has obvious limitations in treating disease, but the emerging world of digital therapeutics is changing that. This nascent field is the next step for telemedicine, in which software and apps running on consumer electronics like smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets can be ePrescribed, delivered […]
August 22, 2019
The growing CBD industry offers one of the best retail and payments stories in the second half of 2019 — and offers lessons for merchants seeking to keep on the...
May 21, 2019
A multi-part, high-stakes race is underway in a fast-growing part of online and brick-and-mortar retail — a race to stay ahead of political backlash and regulation, a race that also...
March 21, 2019
It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores) of eCigarettes, with their different...
February 28, 2020
The coronavirus has wide-reaching effects on eCommerce, technology, medicine, business travel and the economy. Here are the latest updates on its impacts around the world. Shares of Wayfair fell as much as 26 percent on Friday (Feb.28), and the stock had lost 22 percent already this year, Bloomberg reported. The furniture eCommerce retailer reportedly relies […]
July 23, 2019
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has written a letter to Curaleaf regarding its alleged illegal selling of CBD products and its use of “unsubstantiated claims” about CBD being able...
June 18, 2019
Beauty company Mink has designed a 3D printer that will print makeup from any image, according to a release by the company. The Mink printer is portable, weighing about 2...
June 14, 2019
IBM, KPMG, Merck, and Walmart announced that they have been selected by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a pilot program that addresses requirements to identify, track...
