News Corp.(announces a strategic alliance with Healtheon/ WebMD)
Multichannel News, December, 1999
NEW YORK -- News Corp. has announced a $1 billion global strategic alliance with Healtheon/ WebMD.
As part of the deal, News Corp. will provide WebMD with $700 million worth of branding services ($400 million in commercial time in the United States) over 10 years. News Corp. will spend $100 million for 10.8 percent of Healtheon/WebMD, invest $100 million in an international joint venture and pay $62.5 million to carry daily WebMD broadcasts.
Healtheon/WebMD gets 50 percent of international operations of News Corp.'s 14 million-subscriber The Health Network, plus full ownership of thehealthwork.com.
Premium Content Partnership |
HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
Presented by American Express