Archive for the 'Answers.com' Category
The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]
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Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.
According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of […]
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The $100M price tag that Answers.com paid for Lexico - owner of Dictionary.com and Thesarus.com - translates to:
- 35 times earnings
- 15 times revenues
- $9 per unique
Not too shabby. Read our previous post on the logic of the deal.
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Answers.com, a company with a market cap of $100M and an enterprise value of $93M, today bought Lexico, the parent of Dictionary.com for $100M.
Where did Answers.com get this cash? I’ll investigate, but fow now, is this an oddball move or does it make sense?
When I saw the news and began to write this post, I […]
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Not long ago - May 20th 2007 to be precise - I enumerated a bunch of stocks that were in play, some of them have now risen in value, a few quite a bit.
Of note, amongst those I own:
- Answers.com - up from $11 to $17
- Infospace - up from $18 to $24
- Roo - up […]
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The search industry has been putting too much of a premium on paid results at the detriment of organic results.
Well, not so fast. The quintet of mass search - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com and AOL - have focused on both organic and paid, but the laggards have not, and the market caps - and market […]
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I guess it’s time to roll out the stock market cliches.
Back in 2000, I used to work at Mamma.com, the so-called “Mother of All Search Engines.” I worked there before the search engine industry took off, before the stock price tripled in price in one day, before Mark Cuban bought and sold his shares in […]
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