WebProNews » Sky Dayton http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:14:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Business.com Sells For $350 Million http://www.webpronews.com/business-com-sells-for-350-million-2007-07 http://www.webpronews.com/business-com-sells-for-350-million-2007-07#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:01:38 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=39374 The $7.5 million price tag for Business.com paid by two businessmen in 1999 looks like a fantastic bargain now that R.H. Donnelley has purchased it for roughly $350 million.

Business.com Sells For $350 Million
Business.com Sells For $350 Million

That $100 million for Dictionary.com may have been a bargain for Answers.com. If they had wanted Business.com, they would have paid three and a half times the price.

PaidContent said yellow page and local search firm R.H. Donnelley elbowed aside several competitors at auction for the domain and its connected search and directory services:

The auction was heated, and initially included IAC, New York Times, DJ and News Corp. IAC didn

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