Apple’s Attention Puts Spotlight on Health-App Maker Mulling IPO
©2015 Bloomberg News NUFO186JIJUO (Bloomberg) — AirStrip Technologies Inc., the mobile health-app maker now featured twice by Apple Inc. during major product debuts, may be nearing an initial public offering as investor interest grows in mobile health-care software. “I would say that 2016 is the year we need to make
Martin O’Malley Calls Out Donald Trump’s ‘Xenophobia’
©2015 Bloomberg News NUFL956KLVRG (Bloomberg Politics) — Martin O’Malley is no fan of Donald Trump. The former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate called out Trump’s “xenophobia” and even took aim at his Democratic presidential rivals for not speaking out loudly against it in a Wednesday interview on Bloomberg’s With
Obama Administration Fails to End House’s Health-Care Suit
©2015 Bloomberg News NUFQ2I6JIJUO (Bloomberg) — Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday declined to dismiss the lawsuit
Silicon Valley’s Quest to Defy Death May Make Inequality Worse
©2015 Bloomberg News NUE5U46S972H (Bloomberg Business) — Death is the great equalizer, right? It always has been, but Silicon Valley might be changing that. More and more tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists see the effort to extend life as the next big thing. “Death will eventually be reduced from a
Can Ellen DeGeneres Give Hillary Clinton What She Needs Most?
©2015 Bloomberg News NUE2WE6S972E (Bloomberg Politics) — “You can just be silly here,” an executive producer of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show said of the talk show before Hillary Clinton took a plush white seat as Ellen’s guest on an outdoor stage set up at New York’s Rockefeller Plaza. It was
Ready for Another Round of Bush Tax Cuts?
©2015 Bloomberg News NUDZB36S972F (Bloomberg Politics) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush would push for steep rate cuts for millions of Americans and reduce the corporate income tax rate by more than 40 percent in a bid for a simpler tax system and a plan to double economic growth in the
European Markets Take 2.5% Drop in China Stocks as Positive Sign
©2015 Bloomberg News NUBN7Q6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — European stocks rose, U.S. futures climbed and the yen weakened as investors took solace that the resumption of trading in Chinese equities failed to spark a deeper selloff. All except two of the 19 industry groups in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index advanced as
Trump Phenomenon Is Nothing New in U.S. Politics: Stephen Mihm
©2015 Bloomberg View NUBIE36S972G (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump’s eruption into the Republican presidential race has been held up as evidence of a new phenomenon in American politics. But it’s not. The real estate mogul has precedents, and there’s one historical doppelganger in particular whose bid for the presidency followed
Obama’s Labor Day Executive Order: Paid Sick Leave for Government Contractors
©2015 Bloomberg News NUBFX76S972B (Bloomberg Politics) — President Barack Obama signed his latest executive order on Labor Day, which extends the number of paid sick leave days mandated for federal contractors. “Right now you have parents who have to chose between losing income or staying home with a sick child,”
Accused Fraudster Spent His Money on Other Frauds: Matt Levine
©2015 Bloomberg View NU4BZH6S972C (Bloomberg View) — You can’t fool an honest man, but here’s how often you could apparently fool James Louks and his company FiberPoP Solutions: 22. In 2004, Defendants pursued funding through a transaction in which, in exchange for an advance fee of $200,000, FiberPoP was to receive at