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Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC), the undisputed leader in telehealth, today announced results for the second-quarter ended June 30, 2017.

“Teladoc continued to deliver very strong results in the second quarter, meeting or exceeding our guidance on all key metrics. Building upon our excellent performance in the first half of 2017, the recent acquisition of Best Doctors makes me more optimistic than ever that Teladoc is uniquely positioned to transform how people access healthcare,” said Jason Gorevic, chief executive officer of Teladoc. “We continue to receive enthusiastic demand for the combined Teladoc and Best Doctors product offering, which delivers a clear, market-leading value proposition for our clients and partners.”

Bill.com, the leading business payments company, today announced it is working with Commerce Bank to reinvent business payments. Commerce Bank is now offering “CashFlow Complete,” an easy, AP and AR automated service powered by Bill.com Connect, the company’s new banking payments platform. With CashFlow Complete, Commerce delivers a banking experience with the power, simplicity and visibility small and medium sized businesses need to manage cash flow and payments digitally.

Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced it has closed a $23 million Series B funding round led by Icon Ventures with participation from Harmony Partners, Costanoa Ventures, and Data Collective. In addition, Michael Mullany, a general partner at Icon Ventures, has joined the Alation board of directors. This round of funding positions the company to scale rapidly to meet enterprise demand for collaborative data catalogs. Alation’s data catalog is the leading choice for chief data officers (CDOs) transforming their organizations into data-driven enterprises.

Recently named the top-ranked solution for data cataloging in Dresner Advisory Services’ Wisdom of Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study, Alation leads the emergence of a new category of data management applications that enable users of self-service analytics to more easily find, understand, and trust their data. Alation’s powerful data cataloging platform combines machine learning and human insight to drive data discovery, curation, and data governance for shorter time to insight and increased data accuracy.

Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC), the nation’s first and largest telehealth platform, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Best Doctors, the world’s leading expert medical consultation company focused on improving health outcomes for the most complex, critical and costly medical issues. With its newly acquired global footprint, network of more than 50,000 medical experts, and unmatched reputation for delivering quality outcomes, Teladoc is prepared to deliver on its vision to provide a central, trusted source for patients to get resolution to their healthcare needs.

TuneIn, the official streaming audio partner of Major League Baseball, is celebrating MLB All-Star Week and one of the most exciting moments in sports – the home run – during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby. Celebrating the season of the long ball, TuneIn and MLB will launch the TuneIn MLB Going Gone Giveaway during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, rewarding fans FREE Premium audio of MLB on TuneIn.

EY has named René Lacerte, founder of payments technology company Bill.com, entrepreneur of the year in financial services in Northern California.

It’s hard to know what’s happening inside a company. Those best-places-to-work lists are helpful, but what’s great for one person might not be so great for another.

The Muse, a content-rich recruitment site whose growth depends on its ability to match job seekers and companies, knows well the challenge of getting the “full story.” Though it counts more than 500 companies as clients, and though it sends videographers into many of these companies’ offices in an attempt to capture their look and feel and fit, learning what these businesses are truly like — compared with the perception they project to the world — is challenging.

It has been until now, anyway. The Muse is hoping to tackle that problem with Brand Amper, a three-year-old Chicago-based startup whose tools enable companies to collect data like employee sentiment by inviting employees to tell stories, including through a Mad Libs-like web app.

Onkyo & Pioneer Innovations Corporation today announces a new “Smart Mute” feature for the Rayz and Rayz Plus Lightning earphones, along with new Rayz Plus colors – Black and Rose Gold – which are available exclusively at Apple.com and at Apple Retail stores worldwide.

Rayz Plus are the first and only Lightning earphones with an inline charging node that allows you to charge the iPhone and listen to music or talk at the same time.

Rayz Plus uses Apple’s newest Lightning audio technology, powered by Avnera Corporation’s LightX platform and aims to provide simple and smart solutions for today’s mobile consumers.

“Smart Mute” Feature

This new feature for Rayz and Rayz Plus automatically mutes the microphone when a user is not speaking and unmutes the microphone when the user begins speaking again. This is ideal when taking calls in noisy environments.

Users can get Smart Mute by downloading the latest Rayz app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the App Store and performing a Rayz software update.

You can get plenty of advice online about finding, applying for, and landing a job, and there is certainly no shortage of résumé-writing resources, interview tips, and follow-up strategies.

Job search sites will help cast a wide employment net, posting your résumé for thousands of businesses to see, and users can search a database of employers for job listings, applying to them with just a few clicks. Finding a job is partially transactional by nature, as you need employment, and a business evaluates whether it wants to pay you to be an employee.

But what if employment was approached from the standpoint of the individual’s needs? That is the question Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos set out to answer when they created The Muse, a career site that enables users to align their passions, desires, and abilities with companies in need of employees.

Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC), the nation’s first and largest telehealth platform, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Best Doctors, the world’s leading expert medical consultation company focused on improving health outcomes for the most complex, critical and costly medical issues. Teladoc is creating a new paradigm for how patients access care by delivering a powerful connected care platform – a single solution for addressing a complete spectrum of medical conditions, from non-critical, episodic needs to chronic, complicated medical conditions.