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InfoSpace Sells Moviso Content Division To FunMobility - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 11 Jun 2007 07:32 AM PST

InfoSpace, reeling from the changes in its mobile division and the general market, has sold off its InfoSpace Media Studios (formerly Moviso) to mobile content tech firm FunMobility. This means…

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InfoSpace Shares Up On Buyout Rumor; $1 Billion Offer From LaNetro Zed: Report - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 29 May 2007 09:47 AM PST

Still very speculative, and InfoSpace has been on the block for a long time now: shares of the online and mobile company were up 20 percent today, after a Spanish…

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Infospace Responds To EMI’s $100 Million Ringtones Lawsuit - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 May 2007 03:47 PM PST

The publishing arm of music label EMI has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Infospace earlier this year, alleging that the company and its subsidiaries Moviso and Premium Wireless Services…

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Earnings: Infospace’s Mobile Revenues Fall 6 Percent Year On Year - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 26 Apr 2007 06:40 PM PST

Infospace (Nasdaq: INSP) has announced its results for the three months ending March 31st. Revenues for the quarter were $86.6 million, a 4 percent decrease year-on-year. The company showed a…

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InfoSpace: What Went Wrong: A Dissenting Shareholder’s View - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 21 Apr 2007 12:21 PM PST

Infospace, which is in the midst of trying to a major shareholder dissent, has its annual stockholder meeting coming up May 31. Sandell Asset Management, a investment management firm that…

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Infospace Responds To Shareholder Board Request - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 19 Mar 2007 03:08 PM PST

Infospace has issued a response to the recent announcement by Sandell Asset Management, a investment management firm that owns about 8.8 percent of Infospace shares, that it will nominate three…

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Infospace Share Owner Asks For Alternative Board, Return of Capital, Sale of Company - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 Mar 2007 10:29 PM PST

Activist shareholders at work: Sandell Asset Management, a investment management firm that owns about 8.8 percent of Infospace shares, has notified the company of its intention to nominate three independent…

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Search Engine Provider InfoSpace Reduces Q406 Profits - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Fri 23 Feb 2007 08:12 AM PST

Reuters reports online and mobile search provider InfoSpace has reduced its previously reported fourth-quarter net income by $2.4 million to $27.6 million. The company said in an SEC filing that…

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Mobile Search: Thai & Arab Operators Launch Search, Nokia & Microsoft Expand, More White Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Mon 19 Feb 2007 03:31 PM PST

It says a lot about the industry search when there’s so much happening that it’s best to bundle it together in a round-up post. Any doubts that mobile search is…

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Earnings: Infospace’s Q4 Profits Fall; 2006 in Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 Feb 2007 08:12 PM PST

Infospace has reported its Q4 earnings today, and its profits fell to $30 million from $37.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenues rose slightly to $89.3 million from $86.5 million…

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Updated: Infospace’s U.S. Games Division Sold To Twistbox - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 25 Jan 2007 08:59 AM PST

Updated below: Infospace has made a smart move, for once, as it rationalizes its portfolio: it has sold off its U.S. games division, Infospace Games, to mobile content and gaming…

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EMI Publishing Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Infospace, Alleging Ringtone Abuse - 6 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 19 Jan 2007 07:15 PM PST

Updated below: If this lawsuit drags on, the drain on Infospace could be lethal, reeling as it is from all kinds of troubles: The publishing arm of music label EMI…

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@ Natpe Mobile: Where Was Infospace? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 16 Jan 2007 12:26 PM PST

f you were at Natpe Mobile yesterday, and saw banners that Infospace was the main sponsor, and couldn’t find anyone from the company, you weren’t wrong. The company probably did…

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Mobile Search Gets Personal, Yahoo Gets A Facelift - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:14 PM PST

While Apple’s iPhone was the week’s main attraction, CES also saw some game-changing announcements that will likely take mobile search to a new and necessary level. Last year was so…

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More Restructuring At Infospace - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Jan 2007 03:26 PM PST

About ten days after Infospace announced that its head of mobile Stephen Davis was leaving, comes another announcement about more restructuring at the company still reeling from the loss of…

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Infospace Head of Mobile Stephen Davis To Leave - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Dec 2006 03:03 PM PST

Infospace slipped this in right in the peak of the holiday season: its high profile head of mobile Stephen Davis will leave his position Jan 1, as president of mobile…

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10-Q Watch: InfoSpace’s Restructuring Charges - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Nov 2006 02:25 PM PST

InfoSpace has detailed its $57.8 million Q3 restructuring charges in its recently filed quarterly 10-Q report with SEC:  “The plan included a reduction of its workforce and consolidation of its…

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InfoSpace Suspends Investment in Moviso and New Mobile Content Intiatives - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 01 Nov 2006 09:37 PM PST

Following its Q3 earnings report earlier today, InfoSpace, reeling from the loss of its biggest operator partner Cingular, has had to make some radical decisions to cut costs and restructure,…

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Earnings: InfoSpace In Losses For Q3; Revenues Up 16 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 01 Nov 2006 02:17 PM PST

InfoSpace, which is going through some tough times after losing their biggest operator customer in Cingular, has reported Q3 numbers and it reflects some of that loss: Net loss in…

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@ Mipcom: What Needs to Be Resolved In Mobile Business Models - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Oct 2006 04:11 PM PST

Besides InfoSpace’s own cloudy future, of course...Infospace president Stephen Davis spoke at Mipcom, and said the long-term value proposition for mobile TV has yet to be written: “We’re trying a…

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