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In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer the tech giant’s foray into health care, opened up about a host of issues facing the future of medicine. Among the topics Schmidt touched on in a half-hour conversation at the STAT Health Tech Summit: his upcoming role as the board chair of the powerful Broad Institute, why synthetic biology is a critical field to watch, the fraught debate over patient data privacy and health systems, and why… Source link

Shares of online betting platform DraftKings () were down nearly 7% at market close on Friday after first-quarter financial results that reported a wider than expected loss and higher expenses .  But DraftKings CEO and co-founder Jason Robins struck an optimistic tone when speaking to Yahoo Finance Live on Friday, noting the company beat estimates on earnings per share and raised its full-year guidance by 16% amid increased enthusiasm for sports betting. “We’re seeing nothing in the data to… Source link

Bloomberg HNA Group Assets Attract Interest From Fosun, JD.com (Bloomberg) — Fosun Group and an arm of JD.com Inc. are among suitors considering investing in domestic operations of HNA Group Co. as the indebted Chinese conglomerate is reorganized after being placed under government control, people with knowledge of the matter said.Ping An Insurance Group Co., Juneyao Airlines Co. and Air China Ltd. have also been studying HNA’s assets, the people said, asking not to be identified because… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex (YNDX) CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan on Q1 2021 Results – Earnings Call Transcript  Seeking Alpha Source link

MindMed’s (MNMD) Nasdaq debut Tuesday made it the second psychedelic drug developer to be listed on a major U.S. stock exchange. UK-based Compass Pathways (CMPS) went public on the Nasdaq in September, while last week Peter Thiel-backed ATAI Life Sciences filed for an IPO. Just a year ago, New York-based MindMed was a penny stock on the over-the-counter market.  Shares fell 29% in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq, but that’s after they ran up 65% Friday and 33% Monday on the OTCQB… Source link

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged support in India’s battle against second wave of Covid-19, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had referred to as a ‘toofan’ (storm) while addressing his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday. Taking to Twitter, Sundar Pichai said,” Devastated to see the worsening crisis in India. Google and Googlers are providing Rs135 crore funding to Unicef and non-profit Give India for medical supplies, supporting… Source link

Benzinga Fasten Seatbelts Again? New Turbulence For Boeing Ahead Of Q1 Earnings Approaching Q1 earnings a year ago, Boeing (NYSE: BA) investors would have probably loved to hear that by this time, the 737 Max would be back in the air, airlines would be ordering more of that particular plane, and daily U.S. passenger numbers would be around 10 times their deepest Covid-related depths. They probably would also have been pretty happy about a stock price near $250, up from lows near $150 going… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Stocks Around $10 With Triple-Digit Upside Potential The S&P 500 rose to another record high on Friday, and at least one strategist believes we’re at the start of a new bull market. Writing from LPL Financial, chief market strategist Ryan Detrick noted several market-historical points that indicate sustained gains are in the offing. Key among his points are the first quarter returns and the breadth of the current stock rally. On returns, Detrick highlights that… Source link

The chicken sandwich wars are in full swing across the country. And that definitely doesn’t come as a shock to Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor.  “It’s easy, quick to make. You can serve it fresh and hot and you can do some unique builds along the way,” Penegor told Yahoo Finance Presents on why the fast-food industry is in love with selling new chicken sandwiches going on more than a year.  To be sure, the resounding success Popeye’s had with its fried chicken sandwich in late 2019 and in 2020 sent… Source link

The Telegraph Czech police hunt two men with names matching Skripal suspects The Czech police have issued a wanted notice for Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, the two Russian intelligence agents wanted in the UK for the 2018 attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. At the same time the Czech government announced it was expelling 18 Russian diplomats from Prague in connection with two explosions at an ammunition dump in 2014 that killed two people. Although the Czech police only… Source link