HealthFocused

Image Source : PIXABAY Amazon Layoff: Health-focused Halo division dissolved Amazon has discontinued Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices and shuttered its health-focused Halo division. The divisions are no longer available on its website and the company has also laid off employees who were working in the Halo team. In a blog post, the company said that at the…

Oura has announced that it is breaking from its online exclusivity and heading full force into the retail space. The company has announced that it is finally moving into retail as part of a new partnership with Best Buy, the technology big box retailer. Oura says that it will be launching its products in more than 850 locations over the next week, giving customers the ability to size one of its health-focused rings before buying it. Tom Hale, Oura CEO, says that the move into retail with Best Buy is “a…

Verily, the health-focused company housed under Google parent Alphabet, has announced that it will lay off 15 percent of its workforce in a restructuring move as it strives for financial independence from its parent company.The cuts will affect about 240 people, reports CNBC, citing sources.Verily is one of Google's sister companies, operating within Alphabet's "Other Bets" category.Verily CEO Stephen Gillett in an email stated that the cuts reflect discontinued programmes and team "redundancy", according to the…

Verily, the health-focused company housed under Google parent Alphabet, is laying off staff and announcing a sweeping reorganization, as shared in an email from CEO Stephen Gillett posted on Verily’s blog. “Approximately 15 percent of Verily roles” have been cut, Gillett said, which translates to more than 200 employees, according to The Wall Street Journal.As part of Verily’s changes, the company will be discontinuing development on its Verily Value Suite (which you can read more about on this jargon-filled page) and…

While we were browsing through the Google Play Store, we stumbled upon yet another really interesting app. This one is called ‘Yuka’, and it’s actually a food-scanning Android app. Well, it can also scan cosmetic products, so it’s not exclusive to food products.Yuka is a truly useful food-scanning app that can also scan cosmetic productsIn any case, all you have to do is scan the barcode on any given product, and the app will then show you its ingredients. That’s not the best part, though. In addition to that, it will…