The Inquisitr » dictionary.com http://www.inquisitr.com The Better Mix Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 IAC Takes $170 Million Hit http://www.inquisitr.com/1886/iac-takes-170-million-hit/ http://www.inquisitr.com/1886/iac-takes-170-million-hit/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:45:47 +0000 JR http://www.inquisitr.com/?p=1886 InterActiveCorp — owner of Ask.com and other big league web services — is taking a $170 million hit due to decreasing values.

The company has announced a $100 million drop for its lending division, which houses LendingTree.com. It’s also seeing a $70 million drop in its real estate sector, which includes RealEstate.com. IAC blames the bad housing market for the losses.

The company is still planning to break itself up into five separate and independent companies by the end of next month. IAC will handle the Ask.com sites. The other newly formed corporations will be in charge of lending and real estate, home shopping, ticketing, and time-share services.

IAC made headlines just a couple of months ago when it acquired Dictionary.com — adding that site, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com into its Ask arsenal — and then, a week later, bought out StarNet Interactive. StarNet ran the teen-targeted GirlSense site, which matched up nicely with IAC’s similarly teen-focused Zwinky service.

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The acquisition — first announced back in May — is now a done deal, with the full parent company Lexico now under Ask.com’s control.

The companies still haven’t disclosed a price, though some reports have put it in the $100 million range.

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According to wire reports, Ask.com expects to expand its audience to more than 145 million unique monthly users, making Ask.com the ninth-largest web property globally accord to comScore. Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Safka told AP that the company hopes to make more money by showing ads to people looking for answers to basic questions, saying “We want to ’super serve’ those people.”

The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, however the sites had previously been sold to Answers Corp, in a deal that failed back in March. The new deal is expected to be completed by the third quarter.

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