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...I very much enjoyed Bruce Daisley’s LinkedIn post sharing an absolute corker of a PR gaffe from the chief executive of WebMD in the US....
...A Financial Times investigation last week showed that numerous healthcare websites, including WebMD and Healthline, have been sharing sensitive user data with big technology platforms, such as Google, Amazon...
...Private equity group KKR unveiled plans on Monday to buy health information website WebMD in a deal valued at $2.8bn....
...WebMD had virtually no revenue and such equity tie-ups were “funny money” transactions....
...Shares in WebMD, the US online health information publisher, jumped by as much as 9.5 per cent in early trading on Thursday after the Financial Times reported that it was exploring a possible sale of all...
...They added WebMD last year hired bankers to explore a sale but later chose to remain independent. WebMD now averages 201m unique users per month....
...WebMD has forecast it will generate earnings of as much as $30.5m on sales of up to $133m in the first quarter....
...Several of the apps, including WebMD, said transmitted information about their users is not personally identifiable and is not being sold....
...A current campaign for its Lysol disinfectant and the Mucinex cold and flu medication brands, taps information from WebMD, an online medical site, to monitor outbreaks and target messages based on the spread...
...WebMD, which provides data and educational information about illnesses, has a market capitalisation of about $1.5bn....
...Bloomberg suggests that Yahoo is interested in acquiring the Weather Channel, WebMD and AutoTrader.com, according to an anonymous source, as part of a “tax-efficient asset swap” with Alibaba and Softbank...
...Most of the share price action appeared driven by WebMD’s decision to terminate “discussions with several potential acquirers of the company.”...
...Searching Kosmix for “chocolate cake”, for instance, brings back recipes, videos from Martha Stewart, nutritional data and a calory burn rate calculator from WebMD....
...Earlier in his career he was also a general manager at WebMD Corporation, and also worked at at Silicon Graphics, Tandem and Intel Corporations....
...These days, after spells at Sun Microsystems and online healthcare company WebMD, Mr Tognazzini is a respected consultant, author and speaker with usability company, the Nielsen Norman Group....
...Some 87 per cent of its revenues come from advertising, much of it from putting ads on its own sites and those of “affiliates” such as WebMD, Ebay and 600 newspaper sites....
...The king of serial entrepreneurs is probably the technology expert Jim Clark, who has founded three billion-dollar start-ups: Netscape, Silicon Graphics and WebMD....
...Two stocks making a debut received a warm welcome from investors on Thursday, with WebMD shares jumping 39.4 per cent to $24.40 on the first day of trading for the online healthcare portal....
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