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Ask Buys Q&A Site Ask.fm

Ask.com, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, just bought Ask.fm, a popular question-and-answer site. “The move signals Ask.com’s first significant push into social networking,” according to The New York Times’ Bits blog. “After years of trying and failing to compete against Google in search, Ask.com turned to become more of a Q and A site for the Web, similar to Yahoo Answers or, more recently, the once-buzzy Quora, a Silicon Valley start-up.”
 

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