With more and more businesses becoming aware of the value locked inside the data they collect, many are becoming aware of a pressing problem. While traditionally a company has employed a data team to ...

Family history site Ancestry launched a new generational health database called AncestryHealth today. The news comes right as AncestryDNA – Ancestry’s genetics site that connects those on the platform ...

Armed with the genetic data of more than 1 million of its customers, the popular genealogical website Ancestry.com just announced it’s expanding in an entirely logical direction: Healthcare.

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The Blackstone-owned genealogy giant Ancestry.com raised a ton of red flags earlier this month with an update to its terms and conditions that give the company a bit more power over your family photos ...

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc BX.N said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on ...

Genealogy site hopes to raise around $75 million with its initial public offering. Launched on the Web in 1997, the site now has almost 1 million paying customers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

It may seem like a niche market, but genealogy research is a booming business. Interest in family history has spawned televsion shows, books, magazines, and conferences. Ancestry.com, whose main ...

The owners of Ancestry.com Inc., the DNA analysis and family tree company, are turning to a well-tested private equity play for taking cash out of a company: topping up on debt. An investor group led ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Ancestry.com recently began releasing new estimates for tests that promise to trace people's ethnic origins, resulting in a flurry of anxious social media posts when this dramatically ...