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...next wave of e-health firms is making the rounds, and this group might actually get the patient back on its feet. IBM, Microsoft and Pfizer have formed a new company that, armed with deep pockets and a strong sales force, will probably try to sell a Web-enabled clinical system to doctors' offices. The new venture will go head to head with MedicaLogic/Medscape and a streamlined, refocused WebMD. At the same time, Allscripts and a ton of software start-ups with colorful names like Epocrates, Iscribe, Ephysician and PatientKeeper are all struggling to get small practices to use handhelds...
...million. But the loss was smaller than anticipated, and it expects to turn a profit later this year. To compete with Allscripts and other e-scription players, Wygod is racing to roll out his own portable platform. He just inked a deal to be the primary content provider for Microsoft's MSN service...
...GRIESE HAS SAN DIEGO CHARGING TOWARD POSTSEASON Remember the great debate in 1998 over whether the Colts should take Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning or Washington State signal-caller Ryan Leaf with the top-overall selection? Looking back, it was like deciding whether to buy stock in Microsoft or Mister Softee. Like the Patriots in 1993, who confidently used their No.1 pick on Washington State QB Drew Bledsoe over Notre Dame counterpart Rick Mirer, the Colts got their franchise quarterback in Manning. The Chargers, meanwhile, paid the Cardinals a king's ransom to advance one spot, in order to select Leaf...
Expedia Inc. has broken the elusive online profit barrier. In its first-ever trip to the black, the mostly Microsoft-owned online travel-booking service announced Monday that it expects to report an operating profit of $4 million for the quarter ended in March, with quarterly revenues up 88 percent and gross bookings up 68 percent from this time last year...
...Expedia and Travelocity fought Orbitz with all the might of their own corporate parents - Microsoft and bookings giant Sabre, respectively - and not just because it's a bit troubling, competition-wise, for a cabal of the Big Five airlines to be cooperatively selling their own version of "competitive fares." It's because Expedia and Travelocity are members of capitalism's longest-standing endangered species: the middleman. They currently charge the airlines a $15 fee for every round-trip ticket, a cost the airlines say - and you can probably believe them - is ultimately passed on to the consumer...