Walt Mossberg in News on January 12 at 12:04 pm PT
The Justin Bieber of CES (or so says Fox Business News) has found a few intriguing items in a show without any real blockbusters.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 4 at 6:10 pm PT
Telcare’s new diabetes meter offers built-in wireless technology to transmit readings to an online database.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 11:26 am PT
A hair-transplant robot called Artas is finally making its way into physicians’ offices across the U.S.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on October 18, 2011 at 3:48 pm PT
The 5Star Responder from GreatCall Inc. is a 1.8-ounce gadget with a speaker, microphone and a large button that calls an always on-duty agent.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on June 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT
One area of medical care has gotten little attention online has been —
wait for it — dental care.
But before you click away from this story to avoid thoughts of root canals, it’s the well-funded premise behind the latest start-up called Brighter from longtime online exec Jake Winebaum.
Kara Swisher in News on April 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today.
That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.
Kara Swisher in News on April 4, 2011 at 12:26 am PT
After it struck its online advertising and search partnership with Yahoo, Microsoft tapped longtime Internet exec Brett Wayn to work with Greg Nelson durung the integration.
Well, Wayn must have liked what he saw at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, since he is bouncing there from his job at the Redmond, Wash. software giant to run local efforts at Yahoo.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm PT
Katie takes a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 2:32 pm PT
We’re several questions into the earnings conference call and no analyst has yet directly asked about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. However, analysts have probed as to just how far out Apple plans its products, something Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook declined to state.
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2011 at 1:20 am PT
It’s definitely an oldie–from a 2005 speech that Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University, after recovering from his first bout with pancreatic cancer–but a truly good one.
BoomTown posted it last time there was a hubbub around what and what was not known about his poor health in 2009.
It’s more pertinent than ever.
