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The Pan-Cancer Screen: Still Early for Prime Time

Xconomy

I would be ecstatic to have a simple tool for my patients that could detect cancers like ovarian and pancreatic that currently have no effective screening approach. The most popular approach is screening blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), which several companies claim to reliably detect at very low levels in the blood.

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

TechCrunch LA

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone.

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Interview with Jamey Edwards, Cloudbreak Health

socalTECH

We created this in 2003 for the medical interpreting market, but since then, we've expanded the platform so that it's not just about language. Jamey Edwards: Our go-to-market platform is an iPad Pro mounted on a specialized cart. The iPad Pro is better, and has a larger screen size, and better audio and acoustics.

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Scanwell Health launches smartphone tests for UTIs in partnership with Lemonaid Health

TechCrunch LA

” Through this window into the market, Chen knew that there was a way to circumvent the time-consuming process of booking a doctor’s visit to get a test scheduled and performed. For Scanwell, it’s the culmination of a three-year journey to bring their first diagnostic test to market.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. I vividly recall a meeting at Siebel to explore a potential partnership by which Siebel would sell our GoToAssist screen sharing technology to its customers.

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On-Demand Startups Are Completely Changing the Industry

Tech.Co

That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. Last year, venture capitalists reduced investment into on-demand startups by 35 percent from 2015 which could indicate a significant slowdown in the industry.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program.