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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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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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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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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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Ask.com, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, plans to announce Thursday that it has agreed to acquire privately-held Lexico, which owns Dictionary.com, as well as Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.
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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 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 PR Newswire via MSN Money @ 13:28 3rd Jul
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Ask.com plans to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the company behind Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum.
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via ZDNet @ 9:11 15th May
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Internet portal Ask.com has announced it has entered a deal to acquire Lexico, the company behind dictionary.com and other reference sites.
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via Design Technica @ 18:14 15th May
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Search site Ask.com will announce Thursday a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference Web sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will expand its audience by 11 percent.
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via Information Week @ 12:43 15th May
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Search site Ask.com will announce on Thursday a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference Web sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will expand its audience by 11 percent.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 6:23 15th May
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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 Interest!ALERT @ 5:50 5th Jul
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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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Ask.com, the Web search unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.
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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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via ClickZ Today @ 18:16 15th 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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Ask.com, the Web search unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.
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via Financial Mirror @ 0:05 5th Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO - Ask.com, the Web search unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp , has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.
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via Yahoo! Singapore @ 23:45 3rd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ask.com, the Web search unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 17:29 3rd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ask.com, the Web search unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com.
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via Reuters UK @ 13:30 3rd Jul
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