B
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$325,000,000
$325,000,000 -- acquisition price for iCrossing (acquired by Hearst) (2010)
Hearst Corp. acquired search marketing firm iCrossing for an estimated purchase price of about $325 million in 2010.
- Financial terms of the deal were not officially disclosed; the $325 million price was reported/pegged by The Wall Street Journal citing unnamed sources.
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Value
$325,000,000
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Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2010
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
The Wall Street Journal
Primary
Tier B
https://digitalmediawire.com/hearst-acquires-search-marketing-firm-icrossing-for-325-million/ ↗
Source Article
Hearst Acquires Search Marketing Firm iCrossing for $325 Million
New York
– Hearst Corp. announced on Thursday that it has acquired search marketing firm
iCrossing.
While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, The Wall
Street Journal pegged the purchase price at about $325 million, citing sources.
Hearst originally approached iCrossing with an offer late…
Original Research
The Wall Street Journal
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Methodology
WSJ-reported purchase price citing sources; official terms not disclosed
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Industrymarketing
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iCrossing (acquired by Hearst): $325,000,000 acquisition price. Source: The Wall Street Journal (2010). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/hearst-icrossing-acquisition-325m
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