4 posts and columns on Keas

News Byte

Keas Uses Social Pressure and Teamwork to Improve Employee Health

in Social on December 20, 2011 at 8:06 am PT

Keas, a long-evolving online health site, now sells access to its Web-based social game to companies, including large concerns like Pfizer and Bechtel. Employees create Keas accounts where they form teams and compete to complete simple goals, like eating more vegetables and exercising more. Keas has now raised $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners.

Weekend Update: 10.10.09–The Textplosion Edition

in News on October 10, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

Sometimes life’s irony smacks you in the face. Sometimes BoomTown smacks you with it instead.

Keas's Adam Bosworth Speaks About New Health Care Start-Up!

in News on October 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm PT

The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It’s perfect timing, given the health-care debate now raging in Washington, which is about how people make health-care decisions–or, more precisely, how they usually do not. Here’s a video interview with Bosworth.
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MSN Debuts Online Health Service

in News on October 1, 2009 at 12:20 am PT

MSN, Microsoft’s online portal, released a beta version of a service to let users manage their health information on the Web. Called My Health Info, the Microsoft offering, which includes a range of widgets and other Web tools, wades into an area that many are attempting to crack, including Google.
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