Economy grew at solid 3.1% rate in first quarter, but slower growth may lie ahead

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy grew at a healthy 3.1 percent rate in the first three months of this year, but signs are mounting that growth has slowed sharply in the current quarter amid slower global growth and a confidence-shaking trade battle between the United States and China. The gain in the gross domestic product, [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:56-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|

Columbus health-care IT firm to partner with Mich. firm

Columbus-based digital health-care company Olive will partner with another company to combine their technologies designed to improve the health care industry. Olive will partner with Clinic, adding the latter’s artificial intelligence technology with its own. Olive’s so-called digital health care employees will now have Clinic’s conversational applications, which are intended to help organizations simplify administration [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:54-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|

Lawmakers evaluate shades of auto window tinting

A northwest Ohio lawmaker wants to return authority governing auto window tinting to elected representatives and allow darker tints on the front side windows of a vehicle. Rep. Derek Merrin, R-Monclova, told members of the Ohio House of Representatives seated for the Transportation and Public Safety Committee that his Legalize Window Tinting Act takes away [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:38-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|

Businesses must strategize to compete with online prices

NEW YORK (AP) — Business owners whose online competitors charge less — sometimes, dramatically less — need to strategize to make sure they survive. Anyone running a business is likely to be involved in a price war at some time, says Mark Bergen, a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:34-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|

Leaks, accusations and staff shuffle: Turmoil inside Homeland Security

WASHINGTON — Leaks. Pointed accusations. A top official’s resignation. And above all, increasingly dire conditions for migrants — those who make it across the border and those who fail, as captured in the searing images of a father clutching his child, both drowned , on the banks of the Rio Grande. Ever engulfed in turmoil [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:18-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|

Future is in doubt for cheaper versions of biologic pharmaceuticals

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — They were the drugs that were supposed to save the U.S. tens of billions of dollars. Called “biosimilars,” they are near-copies of complex and expensive biologic drugs to treat cancer, rare diseases and autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and colitis. But U.S. sales have been so limited that their future is [...]

By |2019-07-01T00:00:07-04:00Monday, July 1, 2019|
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