Zipidee.com announced that it has acquired TotalVid.com, making it one of the largest digital marketplace for mid-to long-tail instructional, educational, and special interest ‘pay for’ content. With this acquisition, Zipidee will have 10,000 titles for sale from over 600 content sellers. They have 300,000 visitors per month looking at 1 million seller listing pages with approximately 150,000 active registered members.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Dun & Bradstreet Acquires AllBusiness.com
Dun & Bradstreet Corp., has bought the online media and e-commerce company AllBusiness.com for about $58 million. It expects the acquisition to generate an additional $10 million of revenue in 2008. AllBusiness.com, which started in 1999, was originally sold to NBC in 2000 for a price tag of $225 million. It was later sold to a private company and raised additional funding in 2004 through 2006.
AllBusiness.com claims an audience of more than 2 million and a library of around 2 million pieces of business information. It is ranked around 8400 on Alexa and according to Quantcast has around 569,000 monthly unique visitors.
Disney Acquires iParenting.com
Walt Disney announced that it has acquired Illinois-based iParenting Media, which runs iParenting.com, a ten-year-old online network founded in 1996 of over 40 community sites for parents and those expecting children. The iParenting acquisition will integrated alongside Disney’s other family sites such as Family.com and FamilyFun.com. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed but they are rumored to be around $19 million in cash and earnout.
GSI Commerce acquires UK’s Zendor.com
GSI Commerce, an online retail specialist, announced that is has agreed to acquire UK-based online retail company Zendor.com for $7.9 million in cash. Zendor employs around 100 people.
News Corp buys Beliefnet.com
It might not be official, but apparently, News Corp. has acquired Beliefnet.com, the NYC-based multi-faith community site which was launched in December 1999. Apparently, the site boasts over 3.1 million unique visitors a month and has been profitable since October 2002. It previously had raised $7 million from Softbank Capital in 2005.