Disruptors

Sesame, a direct-pay digital healthcare marketplace, has raised $27 million in series B funding led by GV, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

The FDA has cleared a technology that allows Parkinson's patients to be remotely monitored via their Apple Watches.

Google suspended an engineer who claimed that the company's AI chatbot had sentience, The Wall Street Journal reported June 12.

Google will pay $118 million and open up some practices to independent review to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of consistently underpaying women, Fortune reported June 13.

Microsoft said it will increase pay transparency and ban most noncompete agreements in a series of moves aimed at improving workplace culture.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are seven open positions as of June 13:

Amazon continues to command the cloud computing market, but Microsoft is gaining ground, a June 2 report by IT consultant Gartner found.

From inking new cloud partnerships with large health systems to launching a healthcare accelerator program, Amazon is continuing to increase its healthcare presence. 

Healthcare organizations chose Amazon Web Services over rival cloud computing companies Google and Microsoft for artificial intelligence and machine learning because it was the most mature platform, had good name and brand recognition and came with high reliability, performance, security…

Alex Kipman, Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence group executive vice president, is leaving the company after spending 20 years with Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported June 8.