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...The semiconductor firms are starting to break past an event horizon....
...Also, payments provider Square, streaming service Roku and games publishers EA and Take-Two have earnings reports....
...In these areas companies are expected to prosper from the acceleration of digital services spurred by shutdowns, homeworking and social distancing....
...They have huge ambitions but are willing to view their efforts in this space over a 10-year horizon — and possibly longer.”...
...Mr Pichai pointed to the way Alphabet’s Verily and Calico healthcare arms had partnered with other big companies as a model of what he hoped to do with other divisions....
...Further disposals of standalone software businesses and businesses within the Specialist Services division are being pursued”....
...The one year horizon is actually rather meaningless when we think of structural change....
...an expanding portfolio of online services, including games, news and video....
...The big three, which have expanded their clientele beyond banks into sectors such as insurance, government and healthcare, generated about $9bn in total revenues last year....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...But there are clouds on the horizon due to Beijing’s drive to cut healthcare spending and create a world-class domestic pharmaceutical industry....
...He now takes on the portfolio for social care as well as healthcare, a nod towards the need to link these functions in an ageing society, a problem faced by health services around the world....
...PwC adds that Telkomsel, Singapore-based ride-hailing service Grab and popular Indonesian e-commerce site Tokopedia — all of which have their own e-payment platforms — are also “on the horizon to be perceived...
...But Deepwater Horizon remains a drag on finances compared with rivals....
...(Telegraph) Treatment of depression Could a new field of ‘immuno-neurology’ be on the horizon?...
...After a dearth of big deals this year, a major media deal has raised hopes of further large transactions on the horizon....
...The acquisition shows how UnitedHealth is expanding its horizons, albeit in different ways from its competitors – it was the only one of the five largest US health insurers not to launch a proposed merger...
...For example, one of the areas being examined by Policy Horizons Canada, a government research service, is how evolution in the digital economy might change the nature of work over the next 10 to 15 years...
...Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, sensor technology and computing power, labs from Silicon Valley to Tokyo are making huge strides in robotics that will transform industries from healthcare...
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...Centene, the Fortune 500 company that specialises in providing services to Americans with no healthcare insurance or who are underinsured....
...“We have a smaller tech team than anybody else in healthcare and we have much grander ambitions in the technology we want to build to rewire the healthcare system.”...
...Healthcare groups led the way, with a further three deals being announced on Monday....
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