Benjamin Kuo’s Blog

Business.com has finally been acquired, by Yellow Pages publisher R.H. Donnelley, in a deal worth $345M. The company has been rumored to be looking for a buyer since June, and was shopping a pricetag of between $300 and $400M for the company. I spoke with Jake Winebaum about the company earlier this year, on the firm’s move towards user-generated content with Work.com, how the business has been doing, and also on the notoriety the firm has for its record breaking purchase (during the go-go dot com years) of its domain name for $7.5M.

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