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Ask.com's acquisition of Dictionary.com publisher Lexico Publishing Group means more ad inventory for Ask and a full-fledged sales force for Lexico.
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June 5, 2008 (FinancialWire) Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) (Current Market Cap: US$ 34.36 Mil.) said that its sales for the month of May were $4.5 million, down 1% from May 2007 sales of $4.6 million. The company s year-to-date sales are down 4% to $22.6 million in the current year from $23.5 million last year. The company s Retail Leathercraft segment posted an 8% sales increase for May, with sales totaling $2.0 million compared to $1.9 million in May 2007. The 67 comparable stores posted a 3% same store sales gain for the month. Five stores that opened in or after May 2007 added sales for the month of $86,000. Year-to-date sales for Retail Leathercraft are $10.4 million this year, up 3% over last year's sales of $10.1 million. As of the end of May, same store sales were down 3% for the year.
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via Macro World Investor @ 20:00 5th Jun
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- May, 2008 -- Ask.com (www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq:IACI), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC -- the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Internet Ad Sales @ 12:10 27th May
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LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC - the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 9:14 15th May
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OAKLAND, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC - the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Macro World Investor @ 10:09 15th May
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The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveals that poor weather conditions appear to boost online clothing sales whilst driving people away from the high street. Snow and rain this April appeared to have encouraged online shoppers to spend nearly £326 million on clothes and online footwear sales saw a significant growth in sales of 20%. These figures drew a sharp contrast to sales on the high street - The British Retail Consortium reported that clothing and footwear fell further to their worst for at least 8 years.
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via Retail Bulletin @ 11:50 22nd May
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Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps expand the firm's monthly unique visitors by 15.6M. Ask said that Lexico is profitbale, and has been seeing high double digit growth for the past two years. Lexico was founded in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro. Ask.com is an operating unit of IAC.
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via SoCalTech @ 3:23 17th May
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Dictionary.com is the most popular of the newly acquired reference sites, drawing 22.1 million visitors worldwide in March. That represented a 20 percent increase from the same time last year. Some of the material from Dictionary.com and other newly acquired reference sites will be featured at the top of Ask's search results page.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 2:02 17th May
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Online sales in Canada top $62 billion sales in 2007Online sales increased at a double-digit pace for the sixth consecutive year in 2007 according to a new StatsCan study.
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via Digital Home Canada @ 11:08 25th Apr
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As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.
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via IT Business Net @ 4:50 28th May
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imageTurns out Ask.com has the answers for Lexico Publishing, the owner of Dictionary.com which earlier agreed to be acquired by Answers.com (NSDQ: ANSW) in a doomed effort. The IAC (NSDQ: IACI) subsidiary isn’t disclosing the price of the all-cash transaction but, according to a source familiar with the situation, it’s in the same range as the $100 million that Answers.com was supposed to pay. Ask spokesman Nicholas Graham declined to confirm the amount or to comment on the price.
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via PaidContent.org @ 3:48 15th May
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OAKLAND, Calif., July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC , today announced the completion of the previously announced agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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via Stockwatch @ 15:02 3rd Jul
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OAKLAND, Calif., July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced the completion of the previously announced agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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via Macro World Investor @ 13:30 3rd Jul
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OAKLAND, Calif., July 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News), today announced the completion of the previously announced agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 13:29 3rd Jul
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In December 2007, Microsoft acquired MultiMap, which offers features that are focused on the UK, and created quite quite a stir when it accidentally forced UK users to use it over Live Maps. In mid-April, Ask UK made a surprising move when it switched away from its mapping service and decided to start using Multimap. Ask UK decided that MultiMap was better than Live Maps and Ask Maps, so it rolled out the service on its website.
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via ArsTechnica @ 16:27 2nd Jul
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The online channel continues to lead financial performance at Gap Inc., where web sales increased 21.3% to $236 million for the first quarter ended May 3, from $195 million a year ago. Web sales accounted for 6.98% of total Q1 net sales, compared to 5.49% in the same period last year, Gap says.
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via InternetRetailer.com @ 1:05 30th May
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REDWOOD CITY, CA -- 05/28/08 -- Signature Devices, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SDVI) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a sales agreement with Strategic Marketing Partners, Inc. (SMP). SMP will implement direct marketing and sales campaigns for all Signature Devices video game titles. Under the sales agreement, Signature Devices has granted SMP exclusivity in selling the companies video game titles throughout their network of retail channels.
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via Earthtimes.org @ 12:28 28th May
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For the first 22 weeks to 28 June 2008, total Group sales were up by 54.0 per cent. Like for like Group sales (including Gamestation from 1 May 2008) for the same period were up by 24.8 per cent. In the UK and Ireland, total sales were up by 58.2 per cent and lfl sales were up by 28.1 per cent. In the International business, total sales and lfl sales were up by 43.9 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively.
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via Retail Bulletin @ 6:02 3rd Jul
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Music sales through Rock Band compete with iTunes - and sometimes they win As music-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Star continue to enjoy strong sales, they've also created an interesting niche market for music sales. In fact the two titles have reportedly sold more than 25 million downloads combined. While most of the songs which can be downloaded for each game are familiar radio staples, a handful are new or relatively new tracks that aren't nearly as well known. You might think that's a recipe for slow sales on the newer titles, but that's not necessarily the case.
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via AfterDawn.com @ 16:22 29th May
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Cincom’s Sales Configurator helps complex manufacturers create effective sales configuration. Worldwide software and services provider Cincom Systems (www.cincom.com) introduces the worldwide availability of Cincom’s Sales Configurator for the Web, an add-on module to its standard Cincom Sales Configurator 8.0 (www.cincom.com/q2o).
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via IndustrySearch @ 14:49 29th Apr
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Square Enix Sees Sales, Profits Fall In Fiscal 2007 [05.27.08] Despite healthy sales of its Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy properties, developer and publisher Square Enix saw both profits and sales fall in its past fiscal year, with sales down 9.8 percent to $1.43 billion and profits down 20.9 percent to $89 million.
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via Gamasutra @ 14:30 27th May
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McAfee, the second-biggest maker of security software, reported first-quarter revenue that topped estimates after hiring more sales representatives to win customers. Sales gained 17 percent to $369.6 million, beating the $351.6 million average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Net income declined 27 percent to $31.6 million, or 19 cents a share, from $43.4 million, or 27 cents, a year earlier, said Santa Clara-based McAfee in a statement Thursday. The company hired more salespeople and increased incentives, Chief Executive Officer Dave DeWalt said today in a conference call. Revenue from corporate customers climbed 16 percent, while consumer sales rose 19 percent. International sales accounted for 49 percent of revenue, the company said.
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via SiliconValley.com @ 11:54 25th Apr
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Figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index showed online clothing sales in the UK were boosted by the April weather. The positive weather conditions encouraged online shoppers to spend around £326 million on clothes, whilst online footwear sales saw a significant growth in sales by 20%. Read more...
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via MPDClick @ 9:54 27th May
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In the first quarter, web sales dropped by 19.1% to $12.3 million from $15.2 million in the first quarter of 2007. Select Comfort, No. 175 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, also posted a net loss of $7.1 million on sales of $168.2 million, compared with net income of $10.7 million on revenue of $216.5 million in the first quarter of 2007. Comparable store sales dropped year-over-year by 25%. The web accounted for about 7% of total sales in the first quarter.
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via InternetRetailer.com @ 2:56 15th May
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