About.com: About To Be Sold

  • February 8, 2005
About.com, a publisher of an amalgam of special interest Web sites that was acquired by Primedia in 2000 for $690 million, has been put on the block, reports The New York Times. The paper said bids are due today and the asking price is between $350 million and $500 million. Suitors include The New York Times Co., Google, Yahoo!, Time Warner and AskJeeves.
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