Calico will be a new company focused on “health and
wellbeing, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases”, says
the company CEO and co-founder Larry Page in a Google+ post. He goes on in a
press statement arguing that, even though the healthcare sector is a lot
different from what Google does today, he believes that his company can
“improve millions of lives”.
Google hasn’t released any specific plans or
projects yet, but to keep the shareholders from worrying, Page says that these
investments are very small in comparison to Google’s core business. This is
Google’s second effort in the healthcare and biotechnology industry. Google
Health was an attempt to store patient medical records online and it was
abandoned because of privacy concerns. Besides, app developers in Google were
also focused on others projects like Google Glass.
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