StartUp Health, a New York-based accelerator, and Rock Health, a San Francisco-based seed fund, each recently released its independent 2015 mid-year report on venture funding and transactional data of the digital health sector. The following are some key observations:
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Highway funding remains at an impasse in Congress this week, as the House and Senate continue to debate how to extend funding for the program and for how long that extension should last. The House already passed a five-month extension, but the Senate is attempting passage of a long-term bill. Meanwhile, the July 31 expiration…
The key word is “suffer.”
Government contractors already face painful compliance burdens associated with the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, the proposed implementing regulations, and the Labor Department’s “Guidance” amplifying the proposed regulations. Last week, the Department added another layer of complexity when it issued an Administrator’s Interpretation of…
On July 21, the IRS announced that it is eliminating its current determination letter program for tax-qualified retirement plans. (IRS officials had been sending signals that this was coming for several months. It is now official.) Starting in 2017, the IRS will accept determination letter applications in only three circumstances:
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Neiman Marcus customers whose credit card information potentially was exposed in a 2013 breach of the retailer’s computer systems may proceed with their proposed class action lawsuit against the retailer, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Neiman Marcus discovered in December 2013 that some of its customers had found fraudulent charges on their credit…
Effective August 12, 2015, New Zealand will become the 45th country to join the World Trade Organization’s (“WTO”) Government Procurement Agreement (“GPA”). As we have previously discussed, this plurilateral agreement promotes open, fair, and transparent competition in the government procurement markets of participating countries. Importantly, the GPA requires member countries to treat suppliers of…
According to news reports, the Ghanaian Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovations will “sanction a directive in two weeks” banning the production and importation of non-degradable plastic products.
Like many countries, Ghana’s rapid development has put significant pressure on sanitation management systems in the country’s urban centers. However, the issue became a national…
In remarks delivered over six years ago in Cairo, Egypt, President Obama elevated entrepreneurship on the U.S. engagement agenda and the global agenda more generally. One of the most significant announcements was the creation of a Summit on Entrepreneurship. Each year, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (“GES”) serves as “a global platform connecting emerging…
Congress will be focusing on two major deadlines this week, as members stare down the July 31 expiration of the current highway program and start the clock, set by bipartisan legislation approved earlier this year on review and consideration of the multilateral nuclear deal reached last week with Iran.
The Senate is scheduled to return…
The private sector is likely to produce critical cyber innovations—at least, that is what the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”) and the U.K. Centre for Defence Enterprise (“CDE”) would like to see.
In the United States, although the internet may have been invented at DARPA, DARPA is turning to a private sector competition to protect…
