If you are considering buying or selling a website, do not let today’s bad economy slow you down. Internet business is booming! If you look at most of the problems that failing businesses are having, you may find that they do not always apply to the online business you have or are considering to buy. The car manufacturers, for… Read More »
Website flipping is a buzz term for short term investing in websites. Many people worry about buying from a seller who is unlawful and a possible scam artist, but while this is a legitimate concern, it is also likely that the seller is worried about the buyer being less than savory. There are lots of aspects of becoming… Read More »
Socialmedian, a social news start up, has been bought by Xing, the Germany based business social network. Xing is similar to LinkedIn, and is positioned to utilize Socialmedian to provide its professional services to users. Socialmedian will receive about $4 million in cash and stock, with also be paid an earn-out based on performance for up to 2.5… Read More »
IMDB, the Internet Movie Data Site, owned by Amazon , has acquired Box Office Mojo, a popular movie data site. The sale will allow IMDB to provide more comprehensive box office data figures, and integrate some of its film and TV credits data on BOM. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The humor Site, National Lampoon, expands into the e-commerce market with the acquisition of JerkassClothing.com that sells youth and college oriented t-shirts. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
RealEstate.com has bought certain assets of New Homes Realty, an online real estate company. New Homes Realty’s cache of Web sites, that includes NewHomes.com providing interested home shoppers a database of thorough real estate information for new and existing homes, will now be run by RealEstate.com. As an Internet-enabled real estate brokerage that operates in 14 markets with more than 1,100 sales agents, RealEstate.com allows… Read More »
