Geekazine 2010» Tag page baby – Geekazine http://www.geekazine.com For the Geek in all of us. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:30:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc For the Geek in all of us. Jeffrey Powers clean Jeffrey Powers geekazine@gmail.com geekazine@gmail.com (Jeffrey Powers) 2007-2010 For the Geek in all of us. Geekazine 2010» Tag page baby – Geekazine http://geekazine.com/images/250x250ad.png http://www.geekazine.com Week in Tech History – 6-29-09 – Ask.com buys Dictionary.com http://www.geekazine.com/news/week-in-tech-history-6-29-09-askcom-buys-dictionarycom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=week-in-tech-history-6-29-09-askcom-buys-dictionarycom http://www.geekazine.com/news/week-in-tech-history-6-29-09-askcom-buys-dictionarycom#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:28:32 +0000 Jeffrey Powers http://www.geekazine.com/?p=3981


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July 4th, 2008 – The company that used to be called “Ask Jeeves”, but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most notably Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The transaction was an all cash one, and undisclosed.

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]]> http://www.geekazine.com/news/week-in-tech-history-6-29-09-askcom-buys-dictionarycom/feed 0 baby,dictionary,ebay,free trial,hotmail,jeeves,lpg,p4,publishing group,thesaurus Brought to you by GotoAssist Express - Get a 30 day free trial - July 4th, 2008 - The company that used to be called "Ask Jeeves", but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. Brought to you by GotoAssist Express - Get a 30 day free trial July 4th, 2008 - The company that used to be called "Ask Jeeves", but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most notably Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The transaction was an all cash one, and undisclosed. Other items in Tech history this week: Hotmail is launched, AOL buys Mapquest, the eBay Baby, in 2001 the P4 1.6 was released at $294 and a lot more in the Geekazine Quickcast Jeffrey Powers clean 32:12