24-664: Healthline Media, Inc. is an American website and provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999, and purchased by Red Ventures in 2019. Healthline Media runs healthline.com, which publishes health and wellness information. It also has provided health content to third party websites. In 2010, Healthline Media signed an agreement to provide medical and health-related content to Yahoo! Health . Other partners have included AARP.com , The Dr. Oz Show web site, and insurance company Aetna . A 2020 study of readability ranked Healthline
48-520: A major part of the company's business model moving forward. Following CNET publishing AI-generated stories containing errors and plagiarized content, as well as incorrect attributions to human writers, the Misplaced Pages community downgraded CNET's reliability, such that all content since the Red Ventures acquisition should not be considered reliable. Employees unionized in response to layoffs and
72-672: A minority stake in India-based travel-tech platform TBO for an undisclosed amount. In November 2023, General Atlantic acquired a majority stake in Joe & The Juice for $ 641 million. General Atlantic agreed to acquire British investment firm Actis Capital in January 2024. The acquisition finalized in October, after which Actis became General Atlantic's sustainable infrastructure arm. General Atlantic backed Royalty Pharma ahead of
96-464: A particular focus on financial content such as credit cards, as the media company gets payments in the hundreds of dollars for each customer that buys a credit card. Red Ventures also aims to get paid for guiding readers to buy drugs and medical consultations. The characterization came after the website Futurism found several articles published by Red Ventures properties, including CNET , were quietly written by artificial intelligence software , with
120-703: A satellite office in Wilmington, North Carolina . In 2015, the company got a $ 250 million investment from Silver Lake . That same year, it doubled the size of its headquarters and bought postal services company Imagitas from Pitney Bowes for $ 310 million. The acquisition was in large part due to Imagitas' exclusive 10 year partnership with USPS to facilitate the official Change of Address process, which roughly 40 million people used each year. Red Ventures acquired Soda.com in 2016. In 2017, it acquired several companies including Choose Energy, Allconnect and Bankrate , Inc. (including The Points Guy ). Bankrate
144-531: A suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina . Red Ventures was founded as Red F on September 29, 1999, in Fort Mill, South Carolina by Ric Elias and Dan Feldstein. In 2003, it was launched as Red Ventures, beginning with DIRECTV (DirectstarTV brand). It acquired Modern Consumer in 2008. In 2010, General Atlantic invested in Red Ventures, and its managing director Anton Levy joined the board of directors. They acquired homeinsurance.com in 2012, which included
168-707: A tool designed to review health websites, researchers from the University of Brighton gave Healthline a score of "good". In particular, the website received high marks in areas such as accuracy, readability, disclosure of sources and ownership, and usability, with lower scores in areas such as comprehensiveness and accessibility. Healthline's quality has been assessed as falling towards the middle of health information websites. A study of top-ranking health websites published in 2021 evaluated its quality as "good", lower than MedlinePlus 's "excellent" scores but higher than affiliate Medical News Today 's "fair/good" ranking. It
192-1117: Is an American growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for global growth companies, headquartered in New York , United States . The firm was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team for Atlantic Philanthropies, a philanthropic organization founded by Charles F. Feeney , the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Ltd . As of November 2021, General Atlantic has over $ 86 billion in assets under management and focuses on investments across five sectors, including Technology, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Life Sciences. The firm has 185 investment professionals based in New York City , Stamford , Palo Alto , São Paulo , London , Munich , Amsterdam , Beijing , Hong Kong , Mumbai , Shanghai , Mexico City , Singapore , and Jakarta . In June 2023, General Atlantic were ranked ninth in Private Equity International 's PEI 300 ranking of
216-400: Is included on Misplaced Pages 's spam blacklist due to its publication of misinformation . Red Ventures Red Ventures is an American media company that owns and operates brands such as Lonely Planet , The Points Guy , Healthline , and Bankrate . Red Ventures focuses on news, advice, and review websites. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Fort Mill, South Carolina ,
240-434: Is now chairman Emeritus. William (Bill) E. Ford , who joined the firm in 1991, is the current chairman and CEO of General Atlantic. In November 2019, General Atlantic announced the appointments of Gabriel Caillaux, Martín Escobari, and Anton Levy to Co-Presidents of the firm, expanding its senior leadership team with the newly created roles. In December 2019, General Atlantic's Global Co-Head of Financial Services Paul Stamas
264-518: The Giving Pledge, which has enlisted more than 90 of the world's richest to (eventually) grant half their wealth to charity. The firm was initially led by CEO Edwin Cohen, previously a partner of McKinsey & Company . Cohen was joined by Steven A. Denning, also from McKinsey & Company, as a founding member of the firm. Steven Denning served as General Atlantic's CEO from 1995 to 2006 and
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#1732802609000288-723: The USPS change-of-address process. On August 6, 2024, The New York Times reported that Red Ventures was selling the CNET Media Group for $ 100 million to Ziff Davis , with the deal expected to close in the third quarter of 2024. In 2023, The Verge described the business model of the company as "publish[ing] content designed to rank highly in Google search for "high-intent" queries and ... monet[izing] that traffic with lucrative affiliate links ". Stories are aimed at people who are likely to buy something ("high-intent"), with
312-494: The company ownership of publications including GameSpot , Metacritic , TV Guide , Chowhound , GameFAQs , Giant Bomb , Cord Cutters News, Comic Vine , and ZDNET . On December 1, 2020, Red Ventures bought Lonely Planet from Tennessee-based NC2 Media for an undisclosed amount. In 2021, the company had 4,500 employees and 751 million readers per month. It acquired Healthgrades.com from Mercury Healthcare for an undisclosed amount. It closed Chowhound that year. In 2022,
336-563: The company sold the websites GameSpot , Metacritic , TV Guide , GameFAQs , Giant Bomb , Comic Vine and Cord Cutters to Fandom, Inc. . That year, it partnered with UnitedHealth Group 's Optum Health to launch RVO Health. In May 2023, Red Ventures agreed to pay the United States $ 2.75 million to resolve a whistleblower's allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by underpaying on contracts connected to
360-402: The drug's claimed benefits in misleading language that failed to accurately reflect the evidence in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Another news reviewer noted that an article on depression cited studies that had not been peer-reviewed, but provided "multiple perspectives from both within and outside the research articles" without exaggeration. In a study using coverage of neck pain to evaluate
384-659: The firm began exploring expanding its presence overseas. Starting in 1999, General Atlantic began to open offices in Europe and Asia and currently has 16 offices globally. In 2018 General Atlantic invested in UK investment start-up Greensill Capital in an attempt to challenge traditional lending systems. In 2019 the firm continued its investments in EMEA region by acquiring majority share in Kiwi.com . In October 2023, General Atlantic acquired
408-417: The largest private equity firms in the world. General Atlantic was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team inside of Atlantic Philanthropies , founded by billionaire Charles F. Feeney a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group . Two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, credit Feeney as a major inspiration for both the $ 30 billion-strong Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
432-503: The risk to their professional reputations. Red Ventures subsequently attempted to sell CNET for $ 250 million; the approximate halving of CNET's value under Red Ventures' ownership is attributed to interest rates, a slower ad market, and potential buyers expressing concern at the reputational damage of the AI scandals. General Atlantic General Atlantic , legal main entity General Atlantic Service Company, L.P. , (also known as "GA")
456-690: The second hardest to read (highest education level required) among the top five Google search results for " phenylketonuria ", excluding Misplaced Pages. Healthline Media was founded in 1999 by endocrine specialist James Norman as YourDoctor.com . In 2006, the company re-launched as Healthline Networks. In 2011, Healthline was reported to be losing money because it was licensing its content from others. The company invested $ 1 million to develop its own content. By 2013, it had over $ 21 million in revenue and 105 employees, with offices in New York City and San Francisco. Deloitte ranked Healthline Media as one of
480-980: The stories containing numerous inaccuracies and instances of plagiarism. Red Ventures announced layoffs at CNET a few weeks after the reports from The Verge and Futurism , which the company says were unrelated. Futurism additionally highlighted undisclosed AI-generated, SEO -focused content produced by Red Ventures's education division (internally RV EDU ). This content promotes schools with which Red Ventures maintains affiliate agreements, such as University of Phoenix (a for-profit college owned by Apollo Global Management ) and Liberty University (founded by conservative activist and Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell ). Websites operated by RV EDU include BestColleges.com, TheBestSchools.org, NurseJournal.org, ComputerScience.org, and Psychology.org, "as well as numerous sites with domain names that imply they're nonprofits". In July 2023, Elias announced that AI-generated content, both editorial content and targeted advertisements, would be
504-562: The top 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America from 2010 to 2013. In January 2016, Healthline raised $ 95 million in growth equity financing through Summit Partners . Under the terms of the agreement, Healthline's media business was established as a standalone entity with David Kopp as CEO. The firm acquired the health news website Medical News Today and reference website MediLexicon in May 2016. In July 2019, Healthline
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#1732802609000528-460: Was acquired by Red Ventures . In August 2020, Healthline acquired Psych Central . While some writers have used terms like "reliable" to describe Healthline, others have questioned both the quality of its content and its usability and readability. For example, the site Health News Review said a Healthline article about a new medication used promotional language copied from the drug-maker's press release, neglected to cite side effects, and framed
552-548: Was acquired for $ 1.24 billion in cash in a deal announced July 3, 2017. HigherEducation.com and Healthline were acquired in 2019. By 2020, the company had grown into an international presence with more than 100 brands, 3,000 employees, and operations in the United Kingdom and Brazil. On September 14, 2020, Red Ventures agreed to purchase the CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $ 500 million. This gave
576-545: Was selected as one of GrowthCap's Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors of 2019. General Atlantic focused initially on investments in computer software, oil and gas exploration, real estate and retailing. Among the firm's first major investments was United Health Services, which tripled in value in three years for the firm. By the late 1980s, General Atlantic began to expand its funding sources to include other family offices , as well as foundations and endowments . Coincident with General Atlantic's expansion of its funding source,
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