The HealthCare segment at Bayer (BAYRY) announced that its blockbuster eye treatment, Eylea, was approved for yet another indication in Japan. The drug was approved by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan for the treatment of myopic choroidal neovascularization (myopic CNV). Eylea’s approval in the myopic CNV indication was based on…
Bitcoin has not affected the stability of Sweden’s economy, according to a new paper published by the country’s central bank. The latest issue of the Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review, published on 18th September, includes the article What is Bitcoin by Bjorn Segendorf, from the bank’s Financial Stability Department. Segendorf provides an overview of the bitcoin…
Microsoft is headed to the backyard of Apple and other tech giants with a San Francisco event to close the month. Since 1995, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) has unveiled eight new versions of its Windows operating system. Oddly, they have followed a pattern of roughly “good,” “awful,” “good” and so forth. As most would agree…
Millions learned today that they might be running machines with a “bug” more dangerous than “Heartbleed”. Bash comes pre-installed on both Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL)’s iMac and MacBook computers. It allows hackers to essentially gain full access to your computer including “sensitive information, confidential information, intellectual property, customer data, financial data – the list goes…
European Union privacy regulators are once again pressing Google to make its policies easier to understand. The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) is a group that essentially makes the privacy concerns of every European union member its concerns when with comes to data protection. Unfortunately, for countries concerned with Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) its a…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is entering into an alliance with Stripe to power its “Buy” button, which the company started testing with the News Feed in July, according to Re/code. Through the “Buy” button, users can buy goods that are displayed in ads or posts on Facebook. The partnership between Facebook and Stripe will be…
