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JANUARY 23, 2012

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is building out its travel vertical today, saying that it has acquired The Frugal Travel Guy , an online travel blog. Internet Brands said the acquisition will help it bolster the lineup of travel sites its owns, including FlyerTalk, Wikitravel, and CruiseMates.

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Internet Brands Blogging Acquisition Sites 147

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands revealed it spent $24.2M In addition to those details, Internet Brands said it is now seeing a monthly average of 50 million total monthly unique visitors to its collection of web sites, with a total of 56.5 Internet Brands said it had net income of $4.3M READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Acquisition .Net Commerce 154

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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing to buy up small, vertically focused web sites to add to its various consumer focused content networks, saying Wednesday that it has acquired three websites. Tags: domain site acquisition merger brands internet. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Sites Web Acquisition 100

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JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. What is Chippmunk?

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based GumGum , which helps web publishers license celebrity and other photos, has rolled out a new Image Toolbar feature for the firm's service, the firm said today. Tanz said that the Toolbar is already running on 450 publisher sites, and that it is seeing around 125 million impressions a month for the toolbar.

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GRP Partners Internet Brands Advertising Class 150

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JUNE 11, 2009

El Segundo-based CarsDirect , the online automotive shopping and information site owned by Internet Brands, said Thursday that the firm will offer free online used car inventory listings to the unfortunate Chrysler and General Motors franchise dealers who were recently terminated by those auto brands. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. We talked about the need to know “investor speak,&# to target investors likely to be interested in your company type and the importance of going direct (versus using an agency to help you raise money).

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