Health Care & Technology

Top Docs on Scribd in 2010: Prop 8, P ? NP, GOP Pledge

Liz Gannes in Social on December 19, 2010 at 10:00 pm PT

A gay-marriage court ruling, a buzz-worthy computer science proof, a political platform and some macaroni-and-cheese recipes were the most shared documents on Scribd in 2010.

The Profits Will Come Out Tomorrow? Ning CEO Rosenthal Talks About Premium Changeover

Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Last week, BoomTown moseyed on down to the Palo Alto, Calif. HQ of Ning–the high-profile social networking platform co-founded by Silicon Valley icon Marc Andreessen–to talk to CEO Jason Rosenthal about a dramatic shift in the start-up’s business plan tomorrow. As in, go all-premium, trying to find a way to turn the start-up–which has raised $120 million in venture funding since its late 2004 founding–into a profitable enterprise. Translation for Web 2.0: Profits are when you make more money than you spend.

Full D8 Interview Video: Former AOL CEO and Investor Steve Case

Kara Swisher in D8 on July 2, 2010 at 9:35 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Today, please enjoy this interview I did with former AOL kingpin Steve Case, who is still an active investor in the digital space, especially in the healthcare arena. Of course, he is most famous for building the Internet’s first mega-company and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history.

Revolution CEO Steve Case at D8: AOL Could Come Back–Look What Happened to Apple

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

Steve Case is most famous for building America Online, which became the Internet’s first mega-company, and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history. But AOL is 25 years old, and the AOL-Time Warner deal is a decade old. What has Steve Case been doing since then? Investing, in a lot of different stuff. Time to talk about old deals and new ones.

Wired Exec Editor Goetz Talks About New Book on Intersection of Healthcare and Tech

Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Earlier this week–via bike, which was a very healthy thing to do–Wired magazine Executive Editor Thomas Goetz visited BoomTown HQ to chat about his new book, “The Decision Tree.” It’s about how personalized medicine will be driven by data, Goetz told me, and focuses on innovation in Silicon Valley around easy-to-use information tools solving major public health issues. Better living through apps? Kind of. Here’s the video interview with Goetz.

HotJobs Sold to Monster in Yahoo Garage Sale

John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2010 at 1:43 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoo’s efforts to sell off some of its noncore properties are going quite a bit better than previously thought. Moments ago, the company said it will sell Yahoo HotJobs to Monster Worldwide, proprietor of rival online career site Monster.com. Price: $225 million in cash.

23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey Leaves Personal Genetics Start-Up to Focus on Alzheimer's Research

Kara Swisher in News on September 4, 2009 at 1:49 pm PT

Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer’s disease. With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company–whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki’s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin–in 2006. Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: “I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.”

Dell: Who You Gonna Buy?

John Paczkowski in News on June 29, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi has a few ideas about what Dell should do with the nearly $11 billion in cash reserves it’s sitting on and they don’t include buying Palm. Sacconaghi believes that Dell isn’t interested in a “transformational” acquisition, though its interest in the handset market might suggest otherwise. Rather, the company is mulling the acquisition of small- to medium-sized enterprise-related companies.