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JUNE 3, 2014

The acquisition this morning of El Segundo-based Internet Brands by KKR is worth a cool $1.1 KKR and Internet Brands announced the deal this morning without any financials. internet brands merger acquisition internetbrands private equity jmiequity hellman friedman' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Internet Brands has reached an agreement to acquire Avvo Inc., an online directory of law firms and legal services, for an undisclosed amount, according to a press release.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

El Segundo-based Internet Brands , the Internet media firm headed by Bob Brisco, has been acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners, in a deal worth approximately $640M. According to Internet Brands, Hellman & Friedman will pay $13.35 The price is a premium of approximately 46.5

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing its domain acquisition streak, saying Tuesday that it has acquired five, new enthusiast websites. Internet Brands said it has acquired 5series.net , CobaltSS.net , gtr.co.uk , DieselTruckResource.com and DieselBombers.com. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2017

Internet Brands Inc. of El Segundo announced an agreement Monday to acquire online medical information company WebMD for $2.8

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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Wednesday it has acquired Tjoos.com , an online coupon web site. Internet Brands said that Tjoos.com would join the firm's shopping vertical. Tjoos had over 1 million unique visitors in February 2010, according to Internet Brands. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing its strategy of buying up vertical web properties, saying today that it has acquired ExpertHub , which operates a network of websites which connect consumers with attorneys. According to Internet Brands, ExpertHub will become part of the firm's Money and Business vertical.

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JULY 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. in revenues, up from $2.5M READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands has been sued by the former owners of one of the firm's properties, Model Mayhem , according to legal documents recently leaked to the press. Waitt, founders of Model Mayhem, Internet Brands failed to make deferred payments which were a part of the deal to acquire Model Mayhem.

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JULY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Internet Brands said the buy would bolster its list of women-focused websites. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2017

Internet Brands to buy WebMD for $2.8 billion, Hulu names Google veteran as marketing executive, and ‘Game of Thrones’ Snapchat lens reaches 45 million people.

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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 million in January.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Thursday that it has acquired seven consumer websites, as part of an expansion of its health and home vertical markets. Internet Brands said it has acquired DentalFind.com , InfertilitySpecialist.com , SkinCareGuide.com , DavesGarden.com , Gardens.com , Craftster.org , and Splitcoaststampers.com.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported earlier this week in its quarterly results that it spent $1.6 Tags: internet brands merger acquisition ecommerce. million for the 5 vertical websites it purchased during the quarter. The five sites were up from three reported by the firm last quarter, when it spent $2.7m

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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its quarterly results Wednesday afternoon, reporting that it saw 50 million monthly unique visitors to the firm's websites in June, up 35 percent from 37 million uniques in June of last year. Tags: internet brands traffic revenues content. for the similar period last year.

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APRIL 23, 2009

Irvine-based Autobytel , Los Angeles-based LeadPoint , and El Segundo-based Internet Brands have settled a multi-party, patent lawsuit that was filed by Autobytel against the other firms. Tags: autobytel leadpoint internet brands patent lawsuit. Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is expanding its network of vertically focused web sites, saying Wednesday that the firm has acquired two new websites in the money and finance area, and has officially targeted "Money and Business" as one of the firm's key vertical markets. Financial terms of those buys were not disclosed.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands announced its fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 results, reporting that--despite the recession--the firm saw an increase in its fourth quarter revenues of 8%, or $27.0M versus $24.9M a year ago. The firm also reported it had acquired GrooveJob.com, which it had previously announced back in October.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands disclosed Tuesday as part of its earnings report that the firm has purchased two web sites, BensBargains.net, and GrooveJob.com. Financial terms of those buys were not disclosed, however Internet Brands said it spend $10.7M on the buy of four companies during Q3. on those web site buys.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 11, 2018

region falls again; Internet Brands to acquire lawyer search website Avvo; and SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018. Venture capital investment to L.A.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a provider of internet brand protection and analytics software, said today that it has named Ryan Erickson as Vice President of Sales. Erickson was most recently Vice President of Sales for Teva North America, a division of Deckers Brands, and also has served at Timberland, Rockport and Reebok.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Vakil has been at JMI since 2012, and was most recently serving as a Principal; he helped invest in Applied Systems, Arena, Avecto, Code42, Internet Brands (acquired by KKR), Intradiem, and Seismic. Vakil is based in San Diego, and Guttman is based in Baltimore. He also has served at Hellman & Friedman and Morgan Stanley.

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JUNE 10, 2014

Southern California has had a string of large, multi-million dollar exits in recent months, including Beats Electronics ($3 billion), TrueCar (IPO), Rubicon Project (IPO), Internet Brands ($1.1 billion), Convertro ($101M), Inktank ($175M), Oculus VR ($2 billion), and Maker Studios ($950M), just to mention a few. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2012

The firm said it has hired Ken Potter, most recently VP and General Manager at Automotive for Internet Brands, to the new position. Potter was responsible for Internet Brands' CarsDirect.com site, and served at the firm for 11 years. Potter also has served as General Manager of two car dealerships, including CarMax.

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MAY 24, 2016

March Capital Partners' founders have previously invested in such companies as PayPal, The Rubicon Project, Internet Brands and CrowdStrike. The firm said it invests globally, and invests in everything from mobile, enterprise, infrastructure, to gaming and other industries. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. I then went to another local company, Internet Brands, which was originally an Idealab company, and had the opportunity to build their shopping division. What is Chippmunk?

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JUNE 30, 2014

Walker is an investor and has been involved in such companies as Westpoint Integrated Technologies; Holt previously has been at Internet Brands, eHarmony, OnGreen.com, and Neodata. According to the company, it has appointed Glenn Walker as Chief Strategy Officer at Ranker, and Stan Holt as Chief Revenue Officer.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

SheKnows was ranked number 49 on the list; other local companies ranked among the top 50 include Internet Brands (50), Demand Media (16), BUZZMEDIA (38), Disney Online (30), Break Media (31), and MySpace (44). READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nativo said it has been selected by The Street, USA Today Sports Media Group, Source Interlink Media, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Internet Brands, Entrepreneur Media, Investor Place Media, Reader''s Digest, Sandusky Newspapers , as well as others, where it is providing native advertising to those publishers.

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MARCH 2, 2012

Domeyer was previously CTO at Internet Brands, and also has served at firms such as Pacific Gas & Electric Energy Services and the Times Mirror Company. According to Oversee.net, Morrow is leaving to "pursue other interests". Domeyer and Morrow had both been named to the co-CEO positions in January.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Domeyer had been CTO at Internet Brands, and also served at PG&E and the Times Mirror Company. Both have been heading up Oversee.net's operations since shortly before Jeff Kupietzky left the company last year, to relocate to Israel for family reasons. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Hansen was previously CFO at Internet Brands , where he oversaw that firm's IPO, in addition to experience at Danone Waters and other firms. Lamb was previously at American Discovery, and also was co-founder and COO of local startup Done Right! He also headed up corporate development at Overture Services.

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MARCH 3, 2011

CarsDirect is owned by Internet Brands, which recently went private in an acquisition by Hellman & Friedman. The site includes better navigation features, more research and in-depth specifications and reviews, articles, breaking automotive news, and more. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Holt was most recently at eHarmony, and also has served at such firms as Internet Brands, The Los Angeles Times, and Lot 11 Studios. The firm said that Holt will be responsible for day-to-day operations at the company, as well as future product enhancements.

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