In the final move toward becoming a financial services company, Blucora said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its e-commerce business Monoprice for $40 million to power cord and networking equipment… Read More
Financial services technology company Blucora completed the sale of its InfoSpace search business for $45 million in cash to email marketing company OpenMail LLC on Wednesday morning. Founded in 1996 by Naveen Jain,… Read More
In a move to further push into the financial-services sector, Belleuve-based Blucora announced today it has sold its InfoSpace search business for $45 million to email marketing company OpenMail. Blucora —… Read More
Two decades in the big data and analytics space revealed a problem that Versium co-founders Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus believed they could solve. They observed the huge volume of data… Read More
Dot-com era tech executive Naveen Jain is getting ready to launch his next startup, an innovation factory that hopes to “change the trajectory of how we actually want to live.”… Read More
There’s a lot of uncertainty swirling around Blucora — once a Seattle area dot-com superstar known as InfoSpace — as the company announced a major strategy shift on Wednesday. Blucora plans… Read More
Blucora, the Bellevue operator of tax preparation software, e-commerce sites and search engines, is cutting 10 percent of its staff in its InfoSpace unit, GeekWire has learned. Twelve people are… Read More
Peter Mansour, who led eBay’s Bellevue operation and served as the company’s vice president of shipping and marketing technologies, has been named president of InfoSpace, the Internet search business that’s… Read More
Blucora’s stock fell as much as 18 percent in trading today after an obscure research firm claimed that a large chunk of the company’s search traffic comes from malware, click… Read More
Apple and Amazon.com are becoming pretty intense rivals. And that rivalry is now spilling over into the war for talent. Kara Swisher at All Things D reports that Amazon.com executive… Read More
One of Seattle’s longest-running Internet brands is being swept into the dust bin of history — and some may say it is about time. InfoSpace, the dot-com survivor founded by… Read More
Investors are liking the new face of InfoSpace. The Bellevue company, a dot-com darling and survivor, transformed itself yet again with the $287 million purchase of online tax preparation company… Read More
Versium Analytics, a new startup led by former InfoSpace executives Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus, is just three weeks old. But the Redmond company has already locked up one customer… Read More
InfoSpace has been going through a number of transformations lately, namely the company’s $287 million acquisition of TaxACT. Now, here’s another big change. Travis McElfresh, who joined the Bellevue Internet… Read More
Ok, I’ll admit it, I am a bit of a sucker for the Super Bowl ads. And each year before the big game, I am especially interested to see which… Read More
It’s no secret that InfoSpace has wanted to expand through acquisitions. The cash-rich Internet search company spelled out its strategy on nearly every quarterly earnings call last year, and over the… Read More
InfoSpace, the dot-com survivor that has pivoted multiple times throughout its 16-year history, is embarking on yet another voyage. The Bellevue company today announced the acquisition of TaxACT, the number… Read More
Yahoo has been discussed as possible acquisition bait for some of the bigger media and technology companies on the planet. But the Silicon Valley stalwart may go on a buying… Read More
It was a tough year for most of the publicly-traded tech companies in Washington state, with just a handful posting positive overall stock performance. Even tech titans like Amazon.com, Microsoft… Read More
Charlie Ellis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft who worked on the Excel and SharePoint teams, has joined three-year-old Seattle startup EnergySavvy. Ellis tells GeekWire that he was ready to leave… Read More
Symform, the Seattle cloud storage startup which scored $1 million in financing in September, has named Margaret Dawson to the position of vice president of marketing. Dawson previously worked at… Read More
InfoSpace has hinted at plans to go on a buying spree. And with $263 million in cash and cash equivalents on the books, the Bellevue Internet search company is poised… Read More
InfoSpace today reported a net loss of $3.9 million on revenue of $54.3 million. The Bellevue Internet search company posted earnings per share of 10 cents, which was in line… Read More
We’ve been tracking some departures, appointments and even new office space in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent days. Here are a few notable Tech Moves: Avvo, the online… Read More
David Binder, who has served as chief financial officer at InfoSpace since January 2008, plans to step down from the job in mid-August to take a new position as chief… Read More
We’ve been wondering how InfoSpace plans to pivot, especially after news Monday that the company had entered into a deal to sell off its Mercantila e-commerce business after just 13… Read More
Just 13 months ago, InfoSpace gobbled up the assets of Mercantila for $8 million in cash and the assumption of $5.9 million in debt. Now, InfoSpace says that the operator… Read More
InfoSpace has had more lives than a cat. But the Bellevue Internet search company appears to be reinventing itself pretty well. The company today posted net income of $2.1 million,… Read More
Steve Hooper, one of the founding members of Ignition Partners and the former CEO of AT&T Wireless, has joined the board of InfoSpace. It is a little unusual to see… Read More