Warren Buffett, Melinda Gates, and some other middle-class Americans got together in Arizona to talk about giving some of their hard-earned dollars away to less successful, less ambitious Americans, and also "meet each other, compare notes, eat and laugh." They hope you'll follow their example.
When the founders of AOL and eBay retired, they planned a life of philanthropy. They were so busy saving the world they apparently didn't notice their own workers were being brutalized.
In retrospect, Sarah Silverman—queen of the rape joke—might not have been the best pick to speak to the nerds at TED. But now that it's done, Steve Case and Chris Anderson should back down before things get ugly.
AOL announced today that it plans to shed one-third of its workforce, or 2,300 jobs, as it prepares to be spun off by its parent company, Time Warner. The most ironic part? The man most responsible for uniting AOL and Time Warner in what has since turned out to be the most ill-advised merger in history, is the…
• The New York Times Co. has reached a "tentative agreement" with its union to impose a 5 percent pay cut on employees through the end of the year. [NYP]
• Disney's ABC is joining Fox and NBC and taking a stake in Hulu. [AdAge]
• As expected, Time Warner said it may spin off AOL. But it may end up selling it, too.…
What's Twitter good for? Knowing that your life of quiet desperation is shared by the rich, powerful, or merely well-read, for starters. Steve Case, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Corddry deserve twitty pity:
AOL, the failing Time Warner Internet unit, is laying off another 700 employees via emails alerting them to an "important meeting." Even the pink-slipping process is predictable now. And former CEO Steve Case? He's sad.
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…
Kim Cattrall turns 52 today, although we're guessing she won't be receiving any celebratory gifts from her SATC castmates. Other people blowing out candles today: Kelis is turning 29, Heroes star Hayden Panettiere is 19 and CBS Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith is 57. Former deputy mayor Randy Mastro turns 52. Google…
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…
Bitter widgetmakers may want you to believe venture capital for the Facebook platform is all dried up, but don't believe it. Not when there's visionaries like former AOL CEO Steve Case still around. Case has joined a $5 million funding round led by Grotech Ventures for widgetmaker Living Social. Living Social builds…
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…
The Brazil Renewable Energy Company, or Brenco, was the target of the Brazilian Labor Ministry's slave-labor investigation unit last month. Brenco produces ethanol from sugarcane, which is more carbon-efficient than corn-based ethanol but incredibly labor-inefficient — cane farming is some of the hardest work on…
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…
Study your trivia and get your answer buzzer ready, as there's a contest this evening at the Web 2.0 Summit. Nerdboys and geek girls, your life's in jeopardy, Web 2.0-style.
