Bloomberg Intel Told to Pay $2.18 Billion After Losing Patent Trial (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. was told to pay VLSI Technology LLC $2.18 billion by a federal jury in Texas after losing a patent-infringement trial over technology related to chip-making, one of the largest patent-damages award in U.S. history. Intel pledged to appeal.Intel infringed two patents owned by closely held VLSI, the jury in Waco, Texas, said Tuesday. The jury found $1.5 billion for infringement of one patent and $675… Source link

Verily’s Onduo, a digital health platform for managing type 2 diabetes, will become part of a broader partnership between Google Cloud and insurer Highmark Health. Photo credit: Verily In December, Google Cloud struck a six-year partnership with insurer Highmark Health, which included plans to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions. Now, sister company Verily Life Sciences is being pulled into that effort. Part of the plan is to use digital health solutions to manage… Source link

With the NBA going all-in on an All-Star Game and its other marquee events on March 7 in the midst of a pandemic, the league understandably has found garnering participants more problematic than usual. One player who could have made an impact, New Orleans Pelicans young star Zion Williamson, will not participate in the Slam Dunk Contest, sources told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday. Players are eager to spend the All-Star break with friends and family. This year, the enticement to travel to Atlanta… Source link

Highmark Health has inked a six-year partnership with Alphabet’s Verily to further build its Living Health model. The team-up builds upon Highmark’s existing partnership with Google Cloud on the program, the insurer announced Tuesday. Living Health aims to address fragmentation in healthcare and re-imagine care delivery with a more seamless, patient-centered experience. It is also designed to ease the administrative burden on providers by arming them with data, real-time remote monitoring… Source link

O’FALLON, Ill., March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Rankings.io, the search engine optimization (SEO) agency of choice for personal injury law firms, has released a new case study video explaining how they got Sibley Dolman Gipe to rank number one nationwide for thousands of terms for car accident lawyer, the most difficult term in the nation. The video is… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Predicts Over 50% Rally for These 2 Stocks Stocks started this year with heft gains, edged back last week, and now are rising again. The big tech giants led the moves, with volatility in Apple and Amazon leading the NASDAQ on its gyrations. The strategy team at investment bank Goldman Sachs have taken notice of the market shakeups, and are working out what it means for investors. According to macro strategist Gurpreet Gill, watching bond yields and stock values closely,… Source link

TipRanks JPMorgan Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months. That’s what a JPMorgan global research team, headed up by Joyce Chang, has been doing. The JPM team starts by noting the sell-off in US Treasury bonds last week, pushing up yields as investors acted in response to inflationary fears. However, the rise in bond yields steadied on Friday, and Chang’s team… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Gary Gensler pledged to scrutinize trading apps that have exploded in popularity, signaling the Biden administration’s pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to confront issues central to wild stock swings that have shocked Wall Street and Capitol Hill. Gensler, testifying during a Tuesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, said a top concern is that upstart technologies are prompting less sophisticated investors to take risks… Source link

Google Workspace, formerly G Suite, offers a powerful, elegant set of office and collaboration apps suitable for business, education, and other institutions. It’s a subscription-based upgrade from the free Google apps available to anyone with a Google account and by far the best cloud-based office suite available. If you’re willing to take all of your business online and give up desktop-based apps, Google Workspace is the obvious choice. Many will still prefer Microsoft’s Microsoft… Source link

Google has been trying to make ebooks accessible to a wider global audience including those who are learning to read. The web giant is continuing its focus on youngsters by launching a set of audio resource tools for children’s titles on Google Play Books. Kids can now listen to a book read out loud, with the ability to turn pages automatically or manually, on titles designated for those aged up to eight years old. The popularity of audiobooks and podcasts on dedicated services such as Source link