Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 27, 2010 4:50 PM
Kno, the heavily-backed startup that is developing e-readers designed for students, has hired a new CFO. The company tells us it has brought in Stuart West, whose long resume includes time at TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP), to oversee its finances. West was most recently…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 4, 2009 6:00 PM
The new-old entrant in the search market: InfoSpace.com. InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP), which offloaded its flagship domain two years ago, is taking it back and relaunching it as a search service featuring top results from the major search engines. It’s a bit of a misnomer to say it’s new since it’s…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 1, 2007 3:57 PM
InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) reported its Q3 numbers today, and they’re all jumbled up, mainly because the company is in the middle of selling off its mobile businesses, and will now focus on online meta-search, and who knows how long it will last an an independent company. Revenues for Q307 were…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 15, 2007 8:32 AM
Well, the deal has gone through after rumors for the last two months—InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) has sold its mobile services business to Motricity for $135 million in cash, meaning that the company will now be solely focused on online search. The mobile division has been seeing steadily falling revenue for…
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Rafat Ali
May 29, 2007 11:47 AM
Still very speculative, and InfoSpace has been on the block for a long time now: shares of the online and mobile company were up 20 percent today, after a Spanish newspaper reported that Spanish mobile content giant LaNetro Zed is working out a deal to buy the company for 800…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 21, 2006 5:03 PM
Infospace slipped this in right in the peak of the holiday season: its high profile head of mobile Stephen Davis will leave his position Jan 1, as president of mobile and online media. Davis joined the company in November 2005 and was responsible for managing InfoSpace’s mobile entertainment business. He…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 1, 2006 4:17 PM
InfoSpace, which is going through some tough times after losing their biggest operator customer in Cingular, has reported Q3 numbers and it reflects some of that loss: Net loss in Q3 was $46.7 million,, compared to net income of $11.3 million in Q305. This includes a restructuring charge of $57.8…
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