SaaS platform KOOS enables businesses to grow with their community, turning stakeholders into co-owners KOOS offers companies a fairer, more rewarding option than typical referral and loyalty programmes, and can be integrated and automated using KOOS’ standardised API Founded by Taavi Kotka and launched in Estonia this year it has raised $ 4M in Seed… Read More »
The president of the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David, has called President Trump the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” Yes, seriously. But nobody else should take that claim seriously. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have all echoed this tune, albeit with slightly less extreme language, decrying the Trump administration as supposedly hateful and homophobic.… Read More »
In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that a new animal disease that can also infect humans is discovered every four months. Ending the program, experts fear, will… Read More »
Dive Brief: Investment in digital health startups hit a new high in 2018, totaling $ 8.1 billion across 368 deals, according to venture fund Rock Health’s latest report. The record haul beat 2017’s total of $ 5.7 billion by 42% — despite completing just eight more deals. Deal size also continued its upward trajectory, with… Read More »
Five Supreme Court justices rejected an appeals case from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to withhold Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood. As a result, two lower court rulings stay in place that block the states from stripping funds from the women’s reproductive health organization. Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the three dissenting judges, accused… Read More »