Maxwell Health Raises $2M To Take On Zenefits With Concierge Service, Personal Health Incentives

Maxwell Health, a platform that provides easy-to-manage health insurance, has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Vaizra Investments, BoxGroup, TiE Angels and a few other angel investors. This round brings the company’s total funding to $3.8 million. Launched in February, Maxwell Health is a no-cost, benefits management service for businesses for medical, dental, vision, life, disability, COBRA administration, HRA/HSA, FSA and 401(k). CEO and co-founder Veer Gidwaney says the new round of funding will go to adding new service features, increasing outreach and building distribution. The startup allows employees to see a greater selection of insurance plans and provides advice on which to choose. Employees with existing plans can use Maxwell Health’s platform to manage their benefits on the portal.?Its dashboard allows businesses to track hiring, employee engagement and company spending. Maxwell Health can provide all this for free, because it earns commission for each insurance plan chosen by its users. If Maxwell Health’s business model sounds familiar, that’s because it is? to a startup called Zenefits, which has seen large success in California and just raised $2.1 million.?Zenefits has about 110 clients and is in the top five percent of California’s insurance brokers, according to our recent coverage?of?the company. Its service provides management of payroll, hiring, medical, dental, vision and 401(k). But a couple of Maxwell Health’s features could give it an edge against Zenefits, as well as healthcare organizers like Cake Health and Simplee. Maxwell Health puts a heavy focus on independent health by offering incentives for employees to eat healthy diets and exercise regularly. Each employee uses a fitness device and receives points for activity, which can be traded in for rewards. Another notable addition is its “concierge service,” which acts as an advisor for health related questions and takes care of bills, insurance disputes and medical appointments. Users can send photos of their medical claims to the concierge and he or she will handle it on the user’s behalf. “When we walk into a company, our aim is to be the single point of reference of advice, of a trusted advisor on everything to do with benefits, health and well-being,” Gidwaney tells me. “We want to meet the company’s needs across the board.” With dozens of businesses on board, Maxwell Health a ways away from Zenefits client base. However, it is licensed to

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Global warming: The folly of certainty

Larry Jones is driving the minivan across the Utah desert on Highway 163, with Sally in the passenger seat and the two kids dozing in the back. According to the map they are approaching the town of Pawoopsie. The radio is on, tuned to a Pawoopsie station that plays country music, but the reception isn?t very good. Suddenly the music cuts off and an announcer?s voice comes in: ?static?one sixty-three?static?Pawoopsie?static?bridge collapsed?static?highway patrol says?static?, and then nothing but static.

Sally sits up. ?Did he say that the highway bridge in Pawoopsie collapsed??

Larry shrugs. ?I don?t know.?

?It sounded like that?s what he was saying.?

?I don?t know; too much static.?

?Aren?t we getting close to Pawoopsie??

?Yeah, should be a couple more miles.?

Larry, don?t you think you should slow down??

?Why??

?Well, if the bridge has collapsed . . .?

?Are you sure that the bridge has collapsed??

?No, but . . .?

?Then why should I slow down??

Here?s the thing about that story: it?s not at all hard to understand. You can tell it to 100 people, and 99 of them will realize that Larry Jones is being stupid. It doesn?t take a brilliant mind to figure out that when you?re hurtling toward possible catastrophe, only a fool would refuse to slow down and start paying attention.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the current debate about climate change, the scientific community has somehow worked itself into the position of implicitly assuming that the public are too stupid to understand that story. We have been treating the public as though they are a large mass of Larry Joneses. That?s a blunder, and one that has cost us big time.

The debate about climate change, as it is currently conducted, focuses mainly on this question: Are we certain that the Earth is going to warm to a dangerous degree in the near future? Climate scientists have been struggling very hard to convince us all that they are certain, or at least nearly certain, but haven?t succeeded all that well.

But that?s really not the right question at all. To think that is the right question is to behave like Larry Jones. The right question is: Are we confident that the Earth is *not* going to warm to a dangerous degree in the near future?

If we?re not confident of that, we?d be idiots not to at least slow down and start making serious plans.

I don?t believe that people are too stupid to understand that logic.

And the thing is, this is a much stronger basis for argument. Certainty is inherently hard to achieve when it comes to climate predictions. Climate depends on lots of variables in complicated ways, and many of them have not been measured with much precision. But if we stop talking about certainty and simply focus on the odds, then the situation clears greatly. There may be a few semi-plausible models that fail to predict serious warming, but the majority of models ? and the models that have the greatest acceptance in the community ? certainly do. Even if a skeptic prefers the models that don?t predict warming, can the skeptic really be *sure* that they are the correct ones?

If one isn?t sure, then to argue against any action at all is to behave like Larry Jones. A skeptic need not believe that we must immediately destroy the world?s economy by shutting down our use of fossil fuels ? it would be just as stupid for Larry Jones to jam down the brakes in the middle of the freeway as to do nothing ? but even a skeptic must see that prudence calls for slowing down, getting as much information as we can, and making contingency plans.

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Twitter UK boosts anti-abuse tools after threats against women

By Estelle Shirbon

LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Twitter apologized on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users to report abusive tweets.

Twitter had come under increasing pressure to react after a feminist campaigner, several women members of parliament and female journalists were targeted by users who hurled misogynistic abuse at them and in some cases made violent threats.

"I personally apologize to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through," Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter UK, said on his own Twitter feed.

"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable. It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter," he said.

Twitter UK said it was adding staff to help handle abuse reports. It also said an in-tweet "report abuse" button currently available on the Twitter app for iPhones would be added to the Twitter website and to platforms used on other mobile devices.

The problem of abuse by so-called internet "trolls" has been front-page news in Britain since activist Caroline Criado-Perez was hit by a barrage of vitriolic tweets after successfully campaigning for a woman's face to appear on bank notes.

In recognition of her role, Criado-Perez appeared alongside Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on July 24, when he announced 19th century novelist Jane Austen would become the face of the new 10-pound note.

Police arrested two men over rape threats against Criado-Perez. One of them was also suspected of making rape threats against opposition Labour legislator Stella Creasy, who backed the bank note campaign and also appeared with Carney on July 24.

In separate incidents days later, several high-profile female journalists received tweets from someone threatening to bomb their homes and "destroy everything" there.

London's Metropolitan Police Service said on Friday it was investigating allegations made by eight people who have been subjected to harassment, malicious communication or bomb threats.

While the trolls themselves have been denounced across British media, Twitter had also come under heavy criticism for its failure to respond forcefully enough.

In a statement issued after Wang's apology, Criado-Perez welcomed the new measures announced by Twitter UK but said a more profound overhaul of the social network's system for handling abuse was needed.

"The current process is lengthy, complicated and impossible to use if you're under sustained attack like I have been," she said.

"Right now, all the emphasis is on the victim, often under intense pressure, to report rather than for Twitter to track down the perpetrator and stop them."

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-uk-boosts-anti-abuse-tools-threats-against-134938067.html

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Lollapalooza's broad appeal leads to biggest audience yet

By Michael Hirtzer

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lollapalooza, the three-day music festival in Chicago's historic Grant Park, was bigger than ever this year with a lineup that honored its alternative rock roots and broadened its appeal to fans of folk, dance, rap and even country music.

A record 300,000 people took in nearly 150 bands playing on eight stages set up across the mile-long park lawn just across the street from the shores of Lake Michigan.

The varieties of music were as disparate as the concert attendees. Teens in brightly-colored tank tops bobbed to the bass music of Dillon Francis in the dance arena on Friday while goths in black swayed to Sunday's closing set by alternative veterans the Cure.

Vampire Weekend supplied the literary pop, singing about the Oxford comma, while country-rocker Eric Church sang about drinking Jack Daniels and getting stoned.

The chart-topping pop folk group Mumford and Sons drew some of the largest crowds on Saturday who heard their banjo-and-acoustic guitar rave-ups "I Will Wait" and "The Cave," after another folk group on the rise, the Lumineers, warmed up the crowd from a stage across the park's lawn.

The sold-out annual summer event, which last year pumped $120 million into the local economy and booked many downtown hotels to capacity this year, is Chicago's largest concert.

Nine Inch Nails, the veteran alternative band fronted by Trent Reznor, played the first Lollapalooza in 1991 and closed Friday night with their first U.S. gig in four years.

A large portion of the crowd was not even born when Reznor burst onto the scene with his aggressive industrial rock, breaking through with the song "Head Like a Hole," which they performed toward the end of their set.

"I came here for the girls and (band) the Killers. I don't know who Nine Inch Nails are," said 15-year-old Ryan Coolidge, a resident of Chicago's northwest suburbs.

Two artists scheduled to perform Saturday night on the same stage abruptly canceled appearances. Rapper Azealia Banks was said to have come down with a throat ailment while Lollapalooza organizers announced that Death Grips, a rap group from California, "chose not to appear."

The festival largely went off without a hitch otherwise, with rains muddying fields early on Friday before sunshine and cooler-than-normal temperatures provided comfortable conditions for the fans.

Ben Gibbard announced that the show would be the last for his group the Postal Service. Local hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper, whose uplifting tales about rising above the gun violence on Chicago's streets, was such a success on a smaller stage that many could not get close enough to see the 20-year-old.

The dance stage Perry's - named after Lollapalooza organizer Perry Farrell - was one of the most popular. Bottom-heavy bass music dubstep dominated that area, with acts such as Baauer - known for his track "Harlem Shake" and the hundreds of social media dance routine videos it spawned.

Grant Kwiecinski, aka GRiZ, played saxophone over his squelching bass tunes. He first attended four years ago as a fan, an event that contributed to him making a career of music.

"My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to," he said in an interview. "It was one of those very cool memories where it all starts to make sense to you very quickly."

(Reporting by Michael Hirtzer; Editing by Pravin Char)

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Android Device Manager beginning to push to phones

The settings on a few phones have turned up an entry for the new Android Device Manager — have you checked yours?

It looks like the first stage of the new Android Device Manager is pushing out to a few people, but the service is not yet live. Google told us their new "find my phone" service would be hitting all Android devices running Android 2.2 or higher sometime this month, and while there's nothing to be found on the web side, the device administrator is showing up slowly.

Oddly enough, there doesn't appear to be an associated apk file or a new version of Google Play services attached, and right now nobody is really sure where to find the details. The good news — and this is really good news — is that the reports are coming from everywhere, not just the U.S. look for Android Device Manager to be a world-wide roll out.

You'll surely want to check and see if you're one of the chosen few, so here's how you can do that. Grab your phone, and open the settings. Under the Security section, look for the Device administrators section. Tap it, and see what's there. We're not seeing it yet on any devices in the office, but Reddit is full of folks with the new settings. If you see it, too, be sure to shout out in the comments.

Source: Reddit

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