Facebook partners with Singapore Tourism Board, Enterprise Singapore to launch training for COVID-19-hit businesses
Facebook Singapore, in partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) Marketing College and Enterprise Singapore (ESG), will launch a series of training sessions via webinars to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, pivot their business operations and upskill workers to prepare for recovery.
The webinars will be targeted at sectors most impacted by the pandemic — travel, hospitality, retail & BTMICE (business travel and meetings, incentive travel, conventions, and exhibitions) Events.
This is also in line with IMDA’s ‘Stay Healthy, Go Digital’ campaign, calling on businesses to embrace digitisation, so that they can continue to run their business online as much as possible, to help flatten the curve of infections.
The first webinar will air on April 30 at 10 AM SGT and will share insights on the impact of COVID-19 in Singapore and APAC, along with an interview of a Singapore-based business on how they’ve adapted to the situation.
Other webinars will include best practices for businesses to stay connected to consumers during this challenging time, dialogues with local businesses on how they pivoted to ensure the proper roll-out of the COVID-19 safe distancing measures, and training on tools across the Facebook platform.
Registration for the various sessions is open here. Facebook also launched a Business Resource Hub offering tools and guidance to help businesses manage and build resilience during the COVID-19 outbreak.
More than 90 startups join hands to fight against COVID-19 in Vietnam
Ninety-three projects and startups are ready to provide technological solutions to help solve problems and assist frontline workers, isolated communities and indirectly affected people.
The School of Biotechnology and Food Technology at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology has created a toolkit to quickly detect nCoV within 70 minutes.
Got It, a technology startup founded by Hung Tran, has introduced a trial version of COVID-19 Check, a service that helps users check the possibility of infection with coronavirus, classified from F0 to F5.
Vulcan Augmetics, a HCM City-based company specialising in 3D printing technology, which is famous for its removable robotic arms to support disable people, now gathers strength to produce anti-virus transparent covers, medical masks, breathing machines and medical equipment.
Digital therapeutics startup Biofourmis acquires Takeda Digital Venture’s Gaudo Health
Biofourmis, a digital therapeutics startup that focusses on personalised predictive care, announced today that it has acquired Gaido Health from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, which expands Biofourmis’ portfolio in the oncology space.
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Gaido Health is a Los Angeles-based digital therapeutics company focussed on the oncology market and is a part of Takeda Digital Ventures, Takeda’s corporate technology investment, and incubation arm.
The acquisition seeks to address a disconnected oncology care pathway that has led to more than 30 per cent of patients on chemotherapy being readmitted to the hospital or requiring a visit to the emergency department.
In the US alone, 1.6 million patients are diagnosed with cancer each year, and the total cost of care is expected to rise to US$170 billion in 2020.
Gaido Health’s solution, which will be supported by Biofourmis’s existing Biovitals platform, combines information on vital signs collected via remote monitoring in the home, patient surveys, and analytics to detect early signs of complications in patients with cancer who have been recently discharged from the hospital. Gaido Health’s AI-based algorithms detect signs of complications to inform the clinician, enabling earlier interventions.
The Gaido Health platform also will be combined with Biovitals platform to manage toxicities in patients undergoing CAR T-Cell Therapy, a form of immunotherapy that uses specially altered T cells—a part of the immune system—to fight cancer.
With the acquisition, Gaido Health’s CEO Gary Manning will be joining Biofourmis as senior vice president of corporate development.
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