NEWS: Lexico, Dictionary.com Being Acquired By Ask.com; Price In $100 Million Range

Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references

...that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. San Jose Mercury News via Yahoo! News

IAC (IACI) To Buy Dictionary.com To Bolster Ask [Silicon Alley Insider]

...owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, in a bid to boost Ask.com, the No. 4 search engine in a market dominated by Google. The deal, reportedly in the $100 million range, will add 15.6 million monthly unique visitors to Ask, which controls roughly 5% of the search market -- a number that IAC has been unable to improve, much to... Venture Capital 

IAC (IACI) To Buy Dictionary.com To Bolster Ask

...owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, in a bid to boost Ask.com, the No. 4 search engine in a market dominated by Google. The deal, reportedly in the $100 million range, will add 15.6 million monthly unique visitors to Ask, which controls roughly 5% of the search market -- a number that IAC has been unable to improve, much to... Silicon Alley Insider

IAC to Buy Lexico to Boost Its Ask.com

...owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com -- as part of an effort to bolster its Ask.com search engine. WSJ.com: What's News US

Ask.com Tries Again (and Not Just With Women)

...owner of Dictionary.com. Bits 

Lexico, Dictionary.com Being Acquired By Ask.com; Price In $100 Million Range

...owner of Dictionary.com which earlier agreed to be acquired by Answers.com (NSDQ: ANSW) in a doomed effort. The IAC (NSDQ: IACI) subsidiary isn't disclosing the price of the all-cash transaction but, according to a source familiar with the situation, it's in the same range as the $100 million that Answers.com was supposed to pay. Ask spokesman N... paidContent.org 

Ask.com to buy Dictionary.com owner

...operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com Web sites. Ask.com didn't release terms of the acquisition, but Lexico is "highly profitable, with high double-digit growth for ... CNET News.com | Tech news blog 

Ed: IAC continues to acquire horizontal services.