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Remedy Health Media Acquires HealthCentral

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Remedy Health, a New York-based health information company, has bought HealthCentral, a start-up that offers online clinical and patient tools, community and content in a variety of topic areas.

New iPhone App Lets Users Count Calories Without Burning Any

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 5, 2011 at 12:13 pm PT

MealSnap taps the iPhone’s camera and a cloud service to allow people to count calories just by taking a picture of what they are about to eat. Assuming they like the result, they can then share the photo and info with friends and family using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Flixster Update: Warner Bros. Very Interested, as Yahoo Drops Out of Bidding for Social Movie Site

Kara Swisher in News on March 28, 2011 at 2:47 am PT

Warner Bros. appears to be the frontrunner in various talks to buy Flixster, the social movie site, while Internet giant Yahoo has dropped out due to price concerns. Sources said the reason for interest from the Time Warner-owned studio is due to a spate of recent digital efforts, including its expansion of a movie rental experiment on Facebook.

Viral Video: CollegeHumor's Move From "Viral One-Offs" to Web Series

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2010 at 12:10 am PT

The national broadcast networks aren’t the only ones debuting a fall series season. CollegeHumor Media, the online comedy video site, is also trying out three longer-term, weekly series rather than the more typical “viral one-offs,” it said. Many have tried and failed, so it will be interesting to see this effort.

First Ben Silverman Online Program–"Ready, Set, Dance!"–Debuts on Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 7:31 pm PT

Yahoo and Electus, the multiplatform content studio headed by former NBC entertainment head Ben Silverman, debuted its first original, branded entertainment programming tonight with “Ready, Set, Dance!” The site, which is now live on Yahoo Music and sponsored by State Farm, merges the candid-camera phenomenon with reality television and “aims to tap into the pop culture interest in television dance shows and dance videos on the Web….” The site is relatively spare right now, with only one episode, titled “Magic Sparkle Chunk and Frisky Ris.”

Clicker's Jim Lanzone Talks About TV on the Web (And Shows Off L.A. Digs)

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2010 at 6:58 am PT

During my recent sojourn in Los Angeles, BoomTown dropped in on the Melrose Avenue HQ of Clicker, the Web site trying to make search sense of premium video on the Web. I had a chat with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of fourth-ranked search engine Ask about whether such a service could survive with giants like Google around. He is certainly trying to differentiate Clicker, which aims to steer clear of both copyright issues and huge bandwidth costs by simply being a helpful friend to consumers in search of good video.

Aardvark Confirms It Has Been Acquired, but Not by What Company (But It's Google)

Kara Swisher in News on February 11, 2010 at 11:20 am PT

Aardvark, the social search engine that has been the subject of much attention since it was founded in late 2007, confirmed that is has been acquired. “We can confirm that we signed a deal to be acquired,” wrote CEO Max Ventilla in an email to BoomTown this morning. But Ventilla would not reveal the buyer, which a report earlier this morning said is Google, for $50 million. Google has since confirmed that it is the buyer.

Yahoo Slightly Beats Expectations in Fourth-Quarter Earnings, But Revenue and Earnings Still Down

Kara Swisher in News on January 26, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

While it was no blowout, Yahoo reported slightly stronger results in the fourth quarter than had been expected by Wall Street today after the markets closed, with revenue down eight percent compared to last year, rather than the predicted 10 percent drop. Analysts had been estimating that Yahoo would have net revenues of $1.23 billion in the quarter. Instead, it posted $1.258 billion in revenue. Earnings were right on target to what was expected, $119 million for the quarter, or 11 cents a share.