Online health community HealthTap has launched a new paid mobile app, called TalktoDocs, that gives patients a voice-controlled way to get answers to their medical questions.…
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WebMD buys startup Avado to connect patients and physicians
As part of its ongoing shift from offering content to being a "full-service engagement platform for patients," WebMD has acquired Avado to help patients and physicians interact.…
Read MoreZocDoc and CareCloud team up to streamline services for doctors
This year, digital health records and practice management startup CareCloud has raised $29 million and announced a partnership with cloud startup Box. This is its latest effort in expanding its platform in healthcare.…
Read MoreBrighter bags $15M to expand its marketplace of discount dental services across the country
Santa Monica-based Brighter, which helps people find discount dental services online, plans to extend into markets outside the Los Angeles area starting in 2014.…
Read MoreIfOnly raises $12M led by NEA to let you hobnob with the rich and famous (for a big fee)
San Francisco-based IfOnly has raised $12 million for an online marketplace of high-end experiences with A-list talent in a range of fields like sports, music and food,…
Read MoreFab buys ‘certain assets’ of French home decor site MyFab
This summer, e-commerce startup Fab cut about 100 people in its Berlin office, but now it looks like the company may be…
Read MoreToo good to be true? Airo wristband says it tracks calories consumed, not just burned
A small Canadian startup says its new health-tracking wristband can track a user's caloric intake using spectroscopy.…
Read MoreHow Google Ventures-backed Play-i plans to use robots to help kids learn to code
Mountain View-based Play-i is launching a crowdfunding campaign to produce simple robots that can help kids as young as five years old learn basic concepts behind programming.…
Read MoreObamacare website to work ‘smoothly’ by end of November, White House says
The government has finally set a deadline for fixing the troubled HealthCare.gov. According to a Reuters report, Jeffrey Zients, the Obama administration’s…
Read MoreCurious wants to turn teachers into the web’s next wave of entrepreneurs
Lifelong learning startup Curious wants to provide teachers of all kinds with the web tools to build their own online classrooms and reach a wider audience of students.…
Read MoreFew details, lots of grandstanding at HealthCare.gov Congressional hearing
Government contractors behind HealthCare.gov said that while their own pieces of the site passed final testing, the responsibility of testing the entire site end-to-end fell to the Department of Health and Human Services.…
Read MoreMore funding for flower startups: Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital back BloomNation
With $1.65 million from several Silicon Valley investors, BloomNation is the latest flower-selling business to take on older companies like 1-800-Flowers.…
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