BY STEPHEN J. UBL -- Insurance companies should be required to pass on more of the discounts they receive to patients in the form of lower out-of-pocket costs, just like they do for other types of health care services.
The Augmented World Expo is a crash course in the developing VR/AR ecosystem.
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord was met with an outcry from many business leaders -- including a number of his fellow billionaires.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has built a plane that’s even bigger and more ridiculous-looking than Hughes’ legendary failure, the Spruce Goose. But don’t laugh. Stratolaunch uses proven technologies and has a real, viable market opportunity. Neither was true in the case of the Spruce Goose.
The group only just stopped promoting their last album, but they already have another one on the way.
As the U.S. prepares to leave the Paris climate accord, billionaire Michael Bloomberg is stepping in to alleviate the impact of the policy shift.
China's leadership is implementing policies to require banks to extend loans to the poor and to small businesses. This can benefit growth, but risks must be taken into consideration to ensure sustainability in lending.
Harvard obtains revenue in China from branded academics, and is seeking $50 million to support its presence there. This may or may not have something to do with a Harvard professor’s proposal to unify Korea under a pro-Beijing government. But the optics are terrible, and the proposal is appeasement.
Nintendo's paid online service is going live in 2018 and costs $20 per year.
Golfing legend Tiger Woods was found in his car, obviously impaired. He cooperated with police who verified his statement that he was not drunk. Yet many chose to downplay or omit that, preferring the "destroy your idols" approach to celebrities who appear to have messed up.
Coming soon after it announced a partnership to test driverless vehicles with Lyft, Waymo's semi-truck program targets yet another application of autonomous tech Uber set its sites on.
In the following interview, outgoing Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Mary Mayhew shares the findings from her department's new TANF report and reflects on what federal welfare reformers can learn from her success over the past half-decade in Maine.
In his first ever tweet, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein condemned Trump's move stating it was "a setback for the environment and the U.S.'s leadership position in the world."
Those pesky phone calls advising that you might owe taxes could be legit. A new law which goes into effect this year directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to hand over some unpaid tax bills to private agencies for collections.
Smile Train CEO Susannah Schaefer runs the nonprofit like the business it is, seeking the most efficient and effective ways to have the desired impact.
'Smart glasses will replace safety glasses,' says ODG’s Chief Operating Officer Pete Jameson. 'In hazardous conditions, workers have to have glasses on anyway — why not make them smart?'
Culture is often a tough concept for leaders to grasp. How do you manage it? How do you strengthen it? And, while most of look at the world’s leading companies for best-practice examples, we found three brilliant pieces of advice from an unusual source—an ex-convict.
JetBlue has partnered with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and SITA to use biometrics and facial recognition technology that allows passengers to board planes by taking a selfie.
Michael Jordan and LeBron James have a lot in common. In attracting viewers to the NBA Finals however nobody tops Jordan.
President Trump said he is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord to bolster America's economic prospects. But doing so may have the opposite effect -- to cost U.S. companies new global markets where the green energy economy is flourishing.
Apple is set to update a number of Mac machines at next week’s Worldwide Developer Conference. The details have been reported by French site Consmac, and relate to regulatory filings made in a Russian-language regulatory filing.
The European business community is girding for an increase in the volume of companies putting their European assets up for sale, in large part due to the uncertainty created by Brexit.
Meal kit company Blue Apron likes to say that it provides "a better way to cook." But will it provide investors hungry for good food companies a better way to trade? The public market could soon find out: Blue Apron filed for an IPO Thursday afternoon.
Scared of traveling to the Philippines under martial law and alongside rebel violence? Here are tips on how to keep safe.
Auto sales are projected to drop this year as more discounted used cars hit the market. But May sales, which were flat from a year ago, were better than expected thanks to some smart rebating by the companies.