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...The risk for operators such as Teladoc is that hospital groups employ their own medical professionals to roll out similar services. Even Amazon has joined the fray....
...The group’s recent shift to the healthcare and pharmaceutical business follows a pattern of Japanese companies diversifying to offset a chronic decline in the domestic beer market, which peaked 25 years...
...Instrumentarian power can know and modify the behaviour of individuals, groups and populations in the service of surveillance capital....
...Pharmaceutical groups, which might see similar benefits from quantum technology in the long term, are still on the sidelines....
...With $100bn now invested in activist funds, managers have been driven to larger and larger targets, but their value-add at blue-chip companies is more modest....
...Whenever the company has a dollar to spare, Jeff Bezos, chief executive and dominant shareholder, ploughs it into a new service....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...Pennon was the only stock in the blue-chip relegation zone, with insurer Direct Line the most likely promotion candidate. Direct Line ended 0.7 per cent lower at 200.8p....
...and financial services....
...Leading the blue-chip risers, Autonomy climbed 5.3 per cent to £15.43 following better than expected results overnight from technology companies including Oracle and Accenture....
...The group had intended to raise £30m, but was offered £65m. BlackRock Asset Management and M&G were among the blue-chip fund managers to participate....
...Among the leading S&P sector groups that led losses, utilities was down 4.4 per cent, healthcare was lower by 3 per cent and financials was off 2.9 per cent for the week....
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