Can HCA Healthcare Weather the Normalization?

Normalization is a fact despite HCA Healthcare’s massive scale The slowdown from the post-pandemic slingshot recovery has begun    Medicare sequestration reimbursement cuts will affect earnings moving forward Hospital and healthcare facilities operator HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) stock has fallen (-25%) this year underperforming the payors. Apparently, not all healthcare stocks are a safe haven…

Can companies issue stakes in their success without using shares or options? This startup thinks so • TechCrunch

So-called ‘stakeholder capitalism’ has not had the most illustrious of histories. Yes, there have been ‘Walmart Associates’ who were able to own stock in the company, or ‘John Lewis Associates’ (in the UK), but it’s hardly made the average person well off. At least they got something? In tech startups, however, tech founders are helped…

Sateliot and AWS collaborate on direct-to-satellite 5G-based NB-IoT connectivity

Satellite telecom operator Sateliot is working to provide direct-to-satellite narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity, delivered by Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. The company announced this week a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a fully virtualized cloud-native 5G core for its NB-IoT service, expected to be commercially available sometime in the second half of…