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Lycos Europe sold further businesses: the news search Paperball was taken over by Paperball GmbH, Munich.
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Lycos and Europe
Lycos Europe was a joint venture between Lycos and the Bertelsmann transnational media corporation, but it has always been a distinct corporate entity.
Although Lycos Europe remains the largest of Lycos's overseas ventures, several other companies also entered into joint venture agreements including Lycos Canada, Lycos Korea and Lycos Asia.
Part of the deal was also German media giant Bertelsmann, owner of a stake in Lycos Europe.
In exchange for keeping the control over Lycos Europe, Bertelsmann agreed to spend US $ 1 billion worth in advertising at Terra Lycos through a five-year period.
Lycos Europe was a pan-European network of websites, offering services including communication tools, online communities, web search, e-commerce, web hosting, homepage building and Internet access.
It was an independent corporation, sharing no corporate structure with Lycos, Inc. ( USA ) other than the licensed use of their name in Europe, but Lycos Europe was formed as a joint-venture between Bertelsmann and Telefonica, who owned Lycos Inc. through Terra Lycos.
On 26 November 2008, Lycos Europe announced that it was to shut down and sell its remaining assets.
In November 2008, Lycos Europe announced that shareholders had called for its liquidation.
Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat-worldsbiggestchat ( which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe ) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love @ Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.
Since liquidation, Lycos Inc withdrew the right for Lycos Europe to use their name and therefore, Lycos Europe are still partially trading under the name Jubii Europe.
Lycos and sold
" Over the course of the next few years, Lycos acquired nearly two dozen internet brands including Gamesville, WhoWhere, Wired Digital ( eventually sold to Wired ), Quote. com, Angelfire, Matchmaker. com and Raging Bull.
In July 2006, Wired News, which had been part of Lycos since the purchase of Wired Digital in 1998, was sold to Condé Nast Publications and re-merged with Wired Magazine.
The Lycos Finance division, best known for Quote. com and Raging Bull. com, was sold to FT Interactive Data Corporation in February 2006, while its online dating site, Matchmaker. com, was sold to Date. com.
As part of a corporate restructuring to focus on mobile, social networks and location-based services, Daum sold Lycos for $ 36 million in August 2010 to Ybrant Digital, an internet marketing company based in Hyderabad, India.
) was purchased by Lycos and run independently from the rest of the magazine until 2006 when it was sold by Lycos to Advance Publications, returning the websites back to the same company that published the magazine.
In October 2004, following Telefónica's decision to re-focus their businesses, Terra sold Lycos to South Korean Internet portal company Daum Communications for US $ 105 million.
In 1999, after talks with both Yahoo and Lycos, Mediascience ( now named Internet Music Distribution, Inc .) was sold to Lycos for.
As it turned out, Tripod would be sold in February 1998 to Lycos for a reported $ 58 million in stock.
( It was subsequently sold to Lycos in 1998 ) He was also a co-founder of Eziba ( later acquired by Overstock. com ), an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world.
Lycos and news
In 2002, Meade was recognized by Lycos as one of the top 20 most popular television news personalities in the broadcast news industry.
According to Lycos, she was ninth ranked in the top twenty TV news personalities with the most searches from January through August that year.
Lycos and search
Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994.
* Lycos, a search engine and Web portal
One of Rog-O-Matic's authors, Michael Loren Mauldin, would go on to write the Lycos search engine.
* 26 July: A variant of Mydoom attacks Google, AltaVista and Lycos, completely stopping the function of the popular Google search engine for the larger portion of the workday, and creating noticeable slow-downs in the AltaVista and Lycos engines for hours.
The resulting categories and profiles were downloaded at intervals by LookSmart and its partners, other search companies such as MSN, Lycos, and Altavista, for use in their own systems with or without modification.
HotBot is a web search engine currently owned by Lycos.
In the beta, HotBot became a portal, returning not just web search results, but also searches from various Lycos websites, such as News, Shopping and Weather Zombie.
But this lasted for only a month, and these features were dragged back to the Lycos website, and HotBot stayed as a web search engine.
In early 2004 Lycos launched a beta release of a free toolbar search product, Lycos HotBot DeskTop, which the company said was " the first product to integrate traditional desktop search with Web search within the browser.
Lycos licensed dtSearch technology to power the local search options.
In January 2002, search engine Lycos reported that her name was among the most searched terms.
discovery, organization, and search and indexing tools of the Internet and the World Wide Web such as Lycos, Alta Vista,
The image search services developed and provided by Picsearch power several major Internet companies, such as Lycos.
She has two children ( now adults ): Bill Townsend a technology entrepreneur — cofounder of the Lycos search engine, and board member at Newegg. com and Amati Foundation, and Kelly Rostic, a former anchorwoman with NBC and Fox.
The site was bought by Mountain View, California – based WhoWhere in 1997, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos in 1998.
Lycos and was
Lycos Inc. was formed with approximately US $ 2 million ($ million today ) in venture capital funding from CMGI.
The transaction closed in October 2000 and the merged company was renamed Terra Lycos, although the Lycos brand continued to be used in the United States.
On August 2, 2004, Terra announced that it was selling Lycos to Seoul, South Korea-based Daum Communications Corporation for $ 95. 4 million in cash ($ million today ), less than 2 % of Terra's initial multi-billion dollar investment.
In October 2004, the transaction closed and the company name was changed back to Lycos Inc.
In August of the same year, a new version of Lycos Mail was released, which allowed sending and receiving large files, including unlimited file attachment sizes.
In February 2007, Lycos MIX was launched, allowing users to pull video clips from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!
Lycos was said to be a good target for other media companies, such as CBS.
Wired News was owned by Lycos not long after the split, until Condé Nast purchased Wired News on July 11, 2006.
Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior ; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.
It was announced on July 9, 2000 that the founders of Suck. com and Feed. com had raised $ 4 million in fresh venture capital financing from Lycos Ventures LP for their new project.
The TOP 5 % logoTOP 5 % of all Web Sites was a web directory run by Lycos that aimed to review, categorize and award the top 5 % of all websites.
In 1997, it was acquired by Lycos, and its founder, Chris Kitze, and editor, Mark Simmer, both became Vice Presidents of Lycos.
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