The health-website bubble, inflated by purchased search-engine traffic, is deflating. As rumored for weeks, Waterfront Media, an operator of health websites, is buying Revolution Health in a $300 million deal. Waterfront's network reaches 14.7 million visitors a month; Revolution, 11.3 million. WebMD, the largest…
Revolution Health, the brainchild of AOL founder Steve Case, is still in talks to sell its health portal to a rival, Everyday Health. The combination would have bested WebMD, the No. 1 health-site operator — until WebMD bought QualityHealth.com today. The Revolution-Everyday deal, meanwhile, could happen within a…
At last, an end is in sight for Steve Case's misadventure in the healthcare industry. Revolution Health, his health-information website, is in merger talks with Everyday Health, a better-run, New York-based rival with more Web traffic. The combination would have more traffic than WebMD. Three's a trend, isn't it? If…
If AOL founder Steve Case is leading a revolution in healthcare, then Revolution Health is shaping up to be the Long March for this Mao Zedong of medicine. Workforce Management, an industry trade publication, reports that Revolution Health has hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company around. Brad Burns, a company…
Former AOL CEO Steve Case founded Revolution Health on some muddle-headed notion of using the Internet to transform healthcare. That dream has died, and what's left — an online-advertising network serving health-information websites — may not have much of a future, says WebMD veteran Josh Wildstein. Drugmakers'…
Following last month's layoffs, Revolution Health, the healthcare-transforming startup started by former AOL CEO Steve Case, will shrink yet more by the end of this month, a tipster tells us:
Revolution Health, the company founded by former AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, has laid off its entire business-to-business unit, according to a tipster. In the rest of Revolution Health, there's little sign of its original mission — helping consumers lower healthcare costs. Instead, it's operating a series…
Is Revolution Health showing signs of recovery? The health information site, launched by AOL founder Steve Case, seemed on its deathbed after laying off 60 earlier this fall. Now a tipster alerts us to two acquisitions Revolution Health will announce later this week. We're not sure if that's a sign of new life, or…
AOL founder Steve Case's Revolution Health will lay off 60 employees in the next 24 hours, according to an internal memo. The bloodletting comes a day earlier than Valleywag reported yesterday. Lowlights from the bloody memo after the jump.
A tipster tells us AOL founder Steve Case's Revolution Health continues to "hemorrhage cash" and that layoffs are coming to the company's D.C.-area workforce this Thursday. About 70 out of 250 employees will be let go, says the source. Apparently, the only revenue generator the company is its CarePages unit, a…
You may remember Steve Case from your spam-filled AOL inbox and your junk-CD-filled postal mailbox. The former CEO of AOL and now the head of the Revolution Health, a flailing healthcare startup, is giving it another go. His latest venture? launched Revolution Money, a nontraditional credit card combined with a…
Perhaps former AOL CEO Steve Case should get better insurance for his workers at Revolution Health. When they're not lying down on the job, employees at his poorly run startup targeting the healthcare industry are dropping like flies. Here's the latest word from an insider:
Former AOL CEO Steve Case has been aiming to turn the healthcare industry upside down with his startup Revolution Health. Instead, it seems, the company is the one getting shaken up. "Layoffs last Friday," says a tipster, who adds that two lead developers resigned yesterday, with a top product manager set to head…
Revolution Health, AOL cofounder Steve Case's new venture, promises to make picking health plans simpler for consumers. Its employees, on the other hand, are left with no choice at all: We're told that the company, despite being flush with venture capital, offers until recently offered no group health plan. A job…
