I recently asked about what were the top medical
device companies by revenue or employees (I love my LinkedIn groups!).
Gail Yates lives in Central MA and is a Documentation and Validation Specialist for a medical
device company by day and by night is an avid reader, blogger, crafter and all around couch potato.
Not exact matches
That and the ESPN app represent the latest efforts
by Disney, parent
company of ESPN, to target «cord cutters» or «cord nevers,» those customers who primarily use mobile
devices and computers to consume media.
BEIJING, May 3 - Smartphone and connected
device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing
by a Chinese tech
company in almost four years.
In November 2013, the FDA sent 23andMe cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki a stern warning saying that the
company's tests and health reports, which it was already selling straight to customers, were unapproved medical
devices that hadn't been cleared
by the agency.
The
company is envisioning a
device that uses a «shape memory polymer» instead of glass, which may be able to reshape itself and return to the original composition
by applying heat to a scratched area.
More than half of health - care organizations surveyed
by the
company say the number of mobile
device data breaches had increased over the past 12 months.
In its heyday, it was
by far the most popular
company on Facebook, but lost lustre in recent years as people moved on to other games and to mobile
devices.
Companies can also keep tabs on corporate data from personal
devices by creating a separate wifi network for those
devices, says Shield Networks» Kroeker.
The
device is built
by Sony, which itself is a sort of admission
by the
company that it indeed doesn't do software very well.
Based on the results, the
company put together the infographic below, which looks at three critical areas of cloud security: Virtual Private Networks (VPN, which allows a computer or a Wi - Fi - enabled
device to send and receive data securely across a shared or public network), bring your own
device (BYOD) policies and a Domain Name System (DNS, the system that Internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated
by).
The Los Angeles - based
company has developed technology that transmits ultrasonic waves (at a register well beyond what's audible) that are translated
by devices as a microscopic quiver; this vibration is converted back into an electrical charge to power anything with a battery, no wires or wall plugs required.
Companies can combat this
by offering an application that's accessible on mobile
devices, or through the use of mobile apps.
In a Nov. 19 interview with NPR, a
company representative claimed they were «excited» to see the creative ways Kinect was being adapted, and that the
device had been left open «
by design» for exactly this sort of thing.
Tokenization also got a boost when it was adapted
by Apple for its ApplePay system, which assigns and encrypts what the
company calls a unique «
device account number» to your iPhone or Apple Watch so each transaction is authorized with a one - time unique number.
The
company started as a mobile ad network and collected so much data across so many
devices that it began to leverage the insights it had gained
by selling them to businesses.
The
company, launched in 2009, started
by selling medical refrigerators used in labs and hospitals but recently expanded into fiber - optic
devices, which heat up as light and data travel through them.
They included models sold
by Samsung as well as Chinese - TV maker TCL that use a particular feature
by the streaming media
device company Roku.
For context: Apple's iPhone is used
by 45.5 percent of subscribers, and Samsung phones — the dominant
company using Google Android to power its
devices — represents 29.5 percent of U.S. subscriber share.
Regenerative medicine
company Avita Medical has raised $ 10 million from investors to support the commercialisation of its ReCell
device, which is being trialled
by a US government agency.
«But you need to make them aware
by allowing them to use this
device on the corporate network, they have to relinquish a little bit of control to the
company.»
The San Francisco - based
company's analytics are used
by 170,000 developers and it is currently running on more than 1.4 million mobile
devices, according to Yahoo's announcement of the deal.
For now, the
company mostly makes money, it seems,
by printing biomaterials for implanting biomedical
devices — an area, Tao says, «that has a very huge market and very great potential, especially in China.»
The
company is selling a thing (the kit)
by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical
device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»
For Apple, it might mean forcing the
company to allow other
companies to build
devices using iOS or macOS, either
by licensing them to competitors or
by eliminating the copyright protection on older versions of those operating systems to push them into the public domain.
As TV
devices like Google's Chromecast and the Roku box proliferate, it becomes easier to stream almost anything to a television, and even cable
companies are being pressured
by the Federal Communications Commission to open up their set - top boxes to outside providers.
She did not say what steps iPhone and iPad users could take to determine whether their
devices were infected, but in a broader statement released
by the
company, Apple said it took security «very seriously» and that iOS was «designed to be reliable and secure from the moment you turn on your
device.»
The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley
by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense
companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave
devices and semiconductor components.
Under her leadership, the
company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow
companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching
devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal»
by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.
Investors can participate in the potential of
companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical
device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed
by the BC Cancer Agency.
According to Gartner, an IT consulting
company,
by the year 2020, there will be over 26 billion connected
devices.
Apple has excelled at giving people what DuBravac calls the «360 solution,» or
devices designed from the ground up to work exceptionally well with the content also sold
by the
company.
Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech
companies, and medical
device makers have given less money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's
by this time four years ago.
Shares fell 5.1 percent to $ 5.22 in extended trading after the
company missed first - quarter sales estimates, selling 2.2 million
devices, compared with 2.33 million expected
by analysts, according to financial data analytics firm FactSet.
Kamen's
device got serious backing in 2012 when Coca - Cola signed a partnership agreement (for undisclosed terms) and pledged to help deliver the Slingshot to rural communities as part of its goal to become «water neutral»
by 2020 — replenishing «every drop» of water used in the creation of the
company's products.
So far, the
device has arrived in nine communities in South Africa and seven in Paraguay, all part of another project — supported
by Coca - Cola and a coalition of other
companies, including IBM, Qualcomm and UPS — to provide a modular unit called Ekocenter that brings water, power and other basic necessities to rural communities.
The South Korean
company's success can be largely explained
by the
company somehow winning the Android sweepstakes, where Galaxy
devices became the consumer's de facto alternative to Apple's iPhone.
The new funding round is being led
by TPG and gives Tanium, which sells tools that allow
companies to monitor any
device on its corporate network, a new valuation of $ 3.75 billion.
The high - tech home monitoring
device company, which was acquired this year
by Google Inc. for $ 3.2 billion, halted all new sales of the alarms in April after recognizing the problem.
The tracking
devices GM would be using are made
by an Australian
company called Seeing Machines.
His
company is often hired
by corporations to go through the computers, mobile phones, and other
devices of employees or former employees looking for information they may have transferred outside the
company.
From his office in Brooklyn, New York, McQuade — who was speaking on a cell phone charged
by one of the solar
devices the
company manufactures — explains how the eight - person
company has approached Sandy.
A year ago, the
company attempted to enter the touchscreen race with gusto
by launching the BlackBerry Z10, a
device that turned out to be a sales flop.
The
company's mobile payment solution takes a two - pronged approach
by combining a near - field communication (NFC) chip with the magnetic secure - transmission technology it acquired from LoopPay to transmit payment information between your
device and a point - of - sale terminal.
A
device like the iPhone contains dozens of processors made
by different
companies such as Samsung, Texas Instruments, Intel and Skyworks.
Technology
companies hope to reverse the shift away from the
device by releasing a round of «two - in - one»
devices that can handle the heavier tasks of a traditional laptop.
His
company digitizes the parking process
by letting users search for spots near their destination, and reserve and pay for it in advance (and re-up the virtual meter), all on their mobile
device.
The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical
devices being designed
by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.
A listing of all
companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement
devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small
companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.
On LinkedIn, the
company says it «seeks to change the paradigm in energy storage
by developing a completely new class of electrical energy
device.»