Wellness companies eager to avoid WeightWatchers’ fate embrace weight-loss drugs

    By Amina Niasse and Nicholas P. Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) -Health and wellness companies are embracing weight-loss drugs and building offerings around them in an effort to avoid the fate of WeightWatchers, which declared bankruptcy this week, citing vastly increased use of the new blockbuster medicines. But some of WeightWatchers’ closest rivals, newer telehealth companies,…

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    Texas secures $1.38 billion settlement with Google over data privacy

    (Reuters) -Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users’ data privacy, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Friday. The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered three products for allegedly violating Texas consumer protection laws. β€œIn Texas, Big Tech…

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