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Sam Gustin
Jul 8, 2011 5:45 PM
LivingSocial, the number two player after Groupon in the booming daily deals market, has selected three Wall Street banks to underwrite its initial public offering, CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) reported Friday. Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch division, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase will lead the IPO, which is expected to…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 7, 2011 12:46 AM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case has a sense of humor and a PhD in merger math. Here’s his response to current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s rationale for spending $315 million for Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post:
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 16, 2011 8:15 PM
SnagFilms, founded in 2008 by Ted Leonsis, has raised its first major outside capital: a $10 million round led by New Enterprise Associates and *Comcast* Interactive Capital. Known until now for its documentaries, SnagFilms will use some of the funds to expand to fiction, to distribute its library across more…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 17, 2010 7:58 AM
AOL’s co-founder and former CEO weighs in on the off-load...
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Joseph Tartakoff
May 6, 2010 1:05 PM
HelloWallet, a new paid site designed to help people manage their personal finances, has raised $3.6 million in a first round of funding. The round was led by Grotech Ventures; AOL (NYSE: AOL) founder Steve Case and his wife, Jean, also participated. Like Mint.com and several other competitors, HelloWallet tracks…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 4, 2010 3:30 PM
Social app developer LivingSocial has raised an additional $5 million in funding, a spokeswoman tells us. The round was led by Grotech Ventures, AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case and his wife, Jean. LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy, who previously led the consumer products team at Case’s Revolution Health, also participated…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 4, 2010 8:30 AM
Steve Case kicks off 2010 as guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box with a look back at the deal that defined the last 10 years in so many ways. Was the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger the worst deal ever? Case still defends the concept but admits the execution was…
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Staci D. Kramer
Nov 18, 2009 9:50 AM
When Steve Case’s internet payment startup Revolution Money raised a $42 million round last April from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, Chairman Ted Leonsis said the company had no plans for a sale or IPO before 2011. Looks like the calendar pages—and the company—flipped a lot faster than Leonsis…
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Rory Maher
Apr 6, 2009 8:41 AM
Revolution Money, an internet-payment company started by *AOL* co-founder Steve Case that also offers a credit card, has raised $42 million from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. The round follows a second round of $50 million raised in 2007 by Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and a number of…
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Staci D. Kramer
Oct 2, 2008 9:25 PM
Reports of this possibility first surfaced last month and now it’s done ... Steve Case’s ambitious Revolution Health Network will merge with Waterfront Media in a deal the parties value at $300 million, according to the New York Times. Revolution’s sites will be absorbed into Waterfront’s Everyday Health Network but…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 10, 2008 10:34 AM
The Washington Post is out with a story we’ve also been working on—the possibility of an acquisition by Waterfront Media, owner of Everyday Health, of Steve Case’s Revolution Health in the form of a merger the two are the second and third largest health sites respectively. (I’m thinking of coining…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 1, 2008 1:50 PM
More signals that the revolution is on hold. Last month we noted that Steve Case’s ambitiously named Revolution Health was moving out of the B2B business and laying off 20 percent of the workforce. We also mentioned that the company as according various strategic options. Now there’s a report that…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 21, 2008 8:00 AM
Who said anything about VCs no longer funding Facebook apps? LivingSocial, a developer of apps that help friends share recommendations for stuff like beer and books, has raised a $5 million first round led by Grotech Ventures, along with personal investments from Steve and Jean Case. The Washington, DC-based company…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 17, 2008 1:04 AM
Anyone with a clue about Ted Leonsis’s activities these past few years won’t be too surprised to hear that his latest venture combines documentaries, widgets, AOL (NYSE: TWX) and passion—or that one of his fellow investors is AOL co-founder Steve Case. SnagFilms, which Leonsis hopes will spawn millions of virtual…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 28, 2008 12:56 AM
Last week in NYC, we had our first EconHealth seminar, which focused on online consumer health content, and the keynote was Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, and a co-founder of America Online. The full video, broken down into two parts, is below (RSS readers will have to…
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David Kaplan
Mar 20, 2008 12:22 PM
Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, a co-founder of America Online, led off ContentNext’s EconHealth conference (ContentNext is the parent company of paidContent) in a Q&A with our co-editor Staci D. Kramer. Although the economics of health media was the main issue Case was prepared to address, Kramer…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Dec 5, 2007 7:10 AM
Steve Case’s Revolution Health has acquired HealthTalk, a health site with an emphasis on in-depth information on certain conditions. The company also said it has taken a stake in SparkPeople.com, a site offering free goal setting tools, for things like weight loss and exercise. It also offers community and social…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Nov 1, 2007 11:03 AM
Qloud, a social music service backed by Steve Case’s Revolution LLC, has officially launched, unveiling a list of investors and directors. In typical Case fashion (see the recently announced Revolution Money), the company sports a number of other big name investors, including AOL (NYSE: TWX) Vice Chairman Emeritus Ted Leonsis,…
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David Kaplan
Apr 16, 2007 8:45 AM
AOL (NYSE: TWX) founder Steve Case plans to bring his consumer health venture RevolutionHealth.com out of testing on Thursday with a revamped site, according to the NYT. The test version went online in January; it drew 486,000 unique visitors in March, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix. The site…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 22, 2007 1:14 AM
Steve Case’s much anticipated online health portal RevolutionHealth (RVH) has launched, and will make a risky move into premium services soon The site starts off free, but eventually begin charging for premium service…Case hopes consumers will eventually pay about $100 a year to subscribe to the site, the WSJ story…
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