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February 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
NY Times: It's All About.com The New York Times Company agreed to drop $410 million in cash for About.com.   |
Information Today
November 6, 2000
Barbara Quint |
About.com Acquired by Primedia: Sin or Synergy? The speed of the acquisition surprised both industry followers and staff members at About.com. The merger of a traditional publisher with a dot-com business marks another example of the blending of print and online in the Net economy... |
Search Engine Watch
October 24, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Sprinks, Plans IPO In a busy financial day for Google, the company purchased Sprinks, the former paid listings division of PRIMEDIA's About.com, while it was also revealed that an initial public offering is planned for early next year. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2005 |
About.com on The Block Search and content players vie to buy aging Web review service. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
About.com Face at NYT Apparently, you can teach old-economy stocks some new-economy tricks. Last night, New York Times updated its guidance, announcing that its About.com division will be accretive to earnings earlier than expected. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Throws Hat Into The Contextual Advertising Ring Last week, Google unveiled a new method of distributing its paid listings, placing them on web pages, as opposed to the traditional means of inserting them into search results. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Peter Horan, CEO, AllBusiness.com Following the $410M sale of About.com to the New York Times Co., the online media vet prepares for his next challenge. Can Peter Horan do it again with the small-business site? |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2007
David Lee Smith |
PRIMEDIA Is Pancake Flat The media company reported the results of its fourth quarter and full-year recently, and the results were disappointing, even in the face of the company's likely restructuring. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Future's All About.com Circulation rates, staffs, and page sizes keep getting smaller. However, New York Times has aggressively grown its online turf to compensate; even if it's cutting back elsewhere, the company's investment makes sense here. Investors, take note. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2006
Tom Taulli |
PRIMEDIA Not a Hot Rod The specialty publisher is in the process of selling off assets to pay down its huge debt, but there is little growth in its remaining assets. While the company is having some success with its online properties, it hasn't been enough for investors. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
New York Times Unfit in Print Is one of the country's best-known newspapers a value or a value trap? Investors, take note. |
