by Mollie McDowell | Jul 21, 2014 | Rock Weekly
July 21, 2014 The tech giants know they can’t do it alone. Last week we learned Google is joining forces with Novartis for a glucose sensing contact lens, and that Apple will pair up with IBM on “a radical step for enterprise”. Meanwhile, Microsoft...
by Mollie McDowell | Jul 14, 2014 | Rock Weekly
July 14, 2014 Word is out that Obamacare is working. The newly insured are pretty darn satisfied with their new plans and the uninsured rate just plummeted to the lowest levels in recorded history. While everyone else danced around the maypole, Speaker Boehner slapped...
by Mollie McDowell | Jul 10, 2014 | Portfolio News
We stepped into our portfolio company, Studio Dental’s brand new office-in-a-truck parked outside Rock Health HQ to catch co-founder and dentist Sara Creighton between patient visits. Here’s what she had to say about her path from dentist to entrepreneur, the role of...
by Mollie McDowell | Jul 7, 2014 | Rock Weekly
July 7, 2014 Last week Google co-founders told Vinod Khosla that they’re just not that into health—though their multiple endeavors say otherwise. Their friends down the peninsula are knee-deep in health, however. Facebook’s science experiment on user emotions is...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 30, 2014 | Rock Weekly
June 30, 2014 No big surprises lurked in Google’s announcement of their recently leaked Google Fit platform last week. However, they failed to mention the word ‘health’ once, focusing instead on basic fitness metrics—perhaps still nursing the wounds of their former...
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