Google is acquiring Senosis Health, a startup that makes apps to measure lung function, hemoglobin and newborn jaundice, according to GeekWire.
Look ahead: Technology giants are increasingly stepping into the health care industry, but most of the movement is on the consumer side. Senosis could be folded into Google's sister company, Verily Life Sciences, and builds on the interest of turning smartphones into personal health diagnostic tools.
Bret Taylor has certainly been around the Silicon Valley block. He began his career at Google, was CTO of Facebook, founded a couple of startups, and is now at Salesforce after it acquired his latest company, Quip — a tool for online document and project management. Axios recently caught up with Taylor to chat about everything from the future impact of automation to changes in workplace tools.
Why it matters: Technology hasn't only drastically changed how people get stuff done on the job, but it's also on the cusp of changing the nature of jobs themselves.
Before it devastated department stores and ran roughshod through apparel and electronics shops, Amazon vanquished brick-and-mortar booksellers.
With the demise of Borders, B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, plus the closure of a bunch of Barnes & Nobles, swaths of densely populated U.S. cities are now without a single remaining bookstore.
In recent months, we've seen that Amazon has reconsidered its dissing of brick-and-mortar, and made the jarring decision to open its own, well-designed book shops, including the one above, on 34th Street near Madison, on New York's east side, spotted on Aug. 11 by New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz.
What is that "now hiring" sign all about? Two part-time positions. In all, Amazon Books has 47 open jobs at its current and coming shops, according to its website. Not quite a resurrection of traditional retail books, but a clue to where retail is headed.
