ASK Buys Dictionary.com – Drops Focus On Women
May 15, 2008 www.webguild.org
Ask.com, plans to acquire Lexico, which owns Dictionary.com, as well as Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com’s chief executive, Jim Safka, declined to disclose terms of the deal but it is estimated to be about $100 million said a person with knowledge of the transaction. He also said the company will drop its focus on women and focus on being a general purpose search engine.
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