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More on Gaiam’s Health Lifestyle Sites Rollup: Total Price Paid: $10 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 07 Aug 2007 03:02 PM PST

Some more details on Gaiam (Nasdaq: GAIA) , the lifestyle health and personal development media company, buying Zaadz, Lime Media, and majority ownership of Conscious Enlightenment (we reported on it…

Health Lifestyle Rollup: Gaiam Buys Lime.com, Social Net Zaadz and Stake in Conscious Enlightenment - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 06 Aug 2007 03:55 PM PST

Gaiam (Nasdaq: GAIA) , the lifestyle health and personal development media company, has made two acquisitions and bought a stake in another one, to form a unified online community focusing…

Earnings: WebMD In Q2 Profits - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 31 Jul 2007 05:50 PM PST

WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD), which provides health information through its online portal, has reported Q2 profits as revenue increased in several segments of its online services business. It earned $5.4 million…

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Senior Citizen Health Portal CareParent Secures $6 Million In First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 31 Jul 2007 07:27 AM PST

CareParent, a placeholder name for what will eventually be a portal/social net for health information for the elderly, has raised $6 million in a first round financing, PEHub reports. Investors…

Medical Search Engine HealthLine Secures $21 Million In Second Round Led By Peacock Equity - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Jul 2007 06:09 AM PST

Medical information search engine HealthLine has raised $21 million in second round financing led by GE/NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) Peacock Equity Fund. The round also includes strategic financing from Aetna…

Health Care Content Providers Combine As ConnectivHealth Acquires Relegent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 26 Jun 2007 02:06 PM PST

ConnectivHealth, a Scottsdale, AZ-based health care publisher, has bought Nashville healthcare information firm Relegent, the Nashville Post reported. Terms of the deal were not released. In addition to other health-related…

Another Health Info Site HealthCare.com Gets $6.1 Million Funding - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Jun 2007 03:34 PM PST

There are more health info sites than diseases: HealthCare.com, a startup based in Miami, has received $6.1 million in venture funding from the founders, with plans for development of a…

Health Information Social Net DailyStrength Closes First Round Financing - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 19 Jun 2007 09:41 AM PST

There seems to be a lot of health-related website news lately. This morning, for example, we reported that Meredith Corp (NYSE: MDP). had purchased health-information search engine Healia. And last…

Meredith Acquires Health Search Engine Healia - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 18 Jun 2007 07:50 AM PST

Meredith Corp (NYSE: MDP). has acquired Healia, a consumer health search engine, as part of its strategy to expand reach in the women’s health market and to increase its online…

Seed Funding Roundup: PeerWisdom; SplashCast - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Jun 2007 11:26 AM PST

-- Health and wellness information site PeerWisdom has received $2 million in angel funding, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. The company was founded by two former Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) employees. Keith…

SEC Watch: NYTCo/About.com Paid $2.3 Million For UCompareHealthCare - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 May 2007 11:15 AM PST

New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) filed its 10-Q with SEC today, and some details about a small acquisition About.com in March: it bought UCompareHealthCare.com, a health care ratings (doctors,…

Earnings: WebMD Reports 46 Percent Revenue Gain; Slight Profit - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 May 2007 03:40 PM PST

On Tuesday, WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD) reported that 1Q net income, on a preliminary basis, came in at $706,000 compared to a net loss of $4.2 million for the same period…

@ EconSM: Focusing On The Health Of Journalism In The Social Media Age - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 26 Apr 2007 01:44 PM PST

How the the mainstream media is responding to the rise of social networks was addressed during one of the EconSM afternoon breakout sessions. Vivian Schiller, SVP and GM, NYTimes.com; Rich…

Case-Backed Health Portal Launches; Acquires Community Site CarePages - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Apr 2007 02:30 PM PST

As we reported earlier this week, Steve Case’s ambitious health portal RevolutionHealth launched today. The company has also acquired CarePages, a free personal-page builder and social-networking for users to communicate…

AOL Founder Prepares Health Site As Challenges Grow - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Apr 2007 06:45 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) founder Steve Case plans to bring his consumer health venture RevolutionHealth.com out of testing on Thursday with a revamped site, according to the NYT. The test version…

Spinal Info Site SpineUniverse Merges With Education Firm; Gets Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 03 Apr 2007 01:27 PM PST

An interesting deal in the B2B arena: SpineUniverse.com, an online resource for spine-focused health care providers and consumers, has merged with BroadWater, a provider of spine-related medical meetings and educational…

Waterfront Media Gets Another $8 Million Debt Financing - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 02 Apr 2007 04:06 PM PST

Waterfront Media, the NYC-based online publisher of self-help experts, has received another $8 million in a round of debt financing. The funding was done by Hercules Technology Growth Capital. Besides…

About.com Expands Health Content With Purchase Of UCompareHealthCare.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Mar 2007 03:30 AM PST

You’re reading it here first ... NYTCO’s About.com has acquired UCompareHealthCare.com (UCHC), a health care ratings (doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, specialty centers) , search and info site. Consumers get access…

MovingHealth Gets $1.5 Million Seed; Yahoo Pharma Exec Is Founder - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 Mar 2007 01:55 PM PST

MovingHealth, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of online consumer health information, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst Partners, according to an SEC filing, picked by PEHub.…

Medical News Service MedPageToday Gets $2.1 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 08 Mar 2007 02:30 PM PST

MedPageToday, a Little Falls, NJ-based online medical news summary service, has received $2.1 million in venture funding. The round was led by Milestone Venture Partners, and SJF Ventures also participated…

Microsoft Continues Foray Into Healthcare Services; Acquires Consumer Search Site Medstory - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 26 Feb 2007 09:38 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) continues to expand its healthcare software and internet services interests with the acquisition of still-in-beta vertical health search engine Medstory. Angel investors in the Foster City,…

Health Social Network PatientsLikeMe Gets $5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Feb 2007 12:05 PM PST

PatientsLikeMe, a health care social network, has raised a $5 million first round of funding, reports VentureWire. The company was founded in 2004 by three MIT engineers. Don’t have more…

Case-Owned Lime To Close Down TV Channel; Focus On Broadband - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 28 Jan 2007 07:08 PM PST

Lime, the health-oriented media firm owned by Steve Case’s Revolution Living, will phase out its fledgling TV network, and will focus on its online and broadband channels, reports WSJ. It…

German Media Company Holtzbrinck Buys Stake In Medical Site - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 25 Jan 2007 03:36 PM PST

German media company Georg von Holtzbrinck has bought a stake in Helpster.de, a website focused on health, self-help and communication among the medical community, according to Alarm Clock Euro. Holtzbrinck…

Steve Case’s Health Portal RevolutionHealth Launches; Will Move To A Premim Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 21 Jan 2007 11:14 PM PST

Steve Case’s much anticipated online health portal RevolutionHealth (RVH) has launched, and will make a risky move into premium services soon The site starts off free, but eventually begin charging…