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Blucora (formerly Infospace, Inc.) is a provider of Internet-related services. InfoSpace changed its name to Blucora and NASDAQ symbol from INSP to BCOR on June 7, 2012. This event reflected the company's change as the owner of two online businesses, after its acquisition of TaxACT in January 2012, and distinguishes the parent company from its search business operating unit, which is called InfoSpace.〔http://investor.blucora.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1181431-12-33701&CIK=1068875〕 Blucora's InfoSpace business provides metasearch and private-label Internet search services for consumers and online search and monetization solutions to a network of more than 100 partners worldwide. InfoSpace's main metasearch site is Dogpile; its other brands are WebCrawler, and MetaCrawler.〔(Our Business )(archived) Blucora.com〕 Blucora's TaxACT subsidiary offers online tax preparation services. Founded in 1998 and made by 2nd Story Software, in the 2005 tax season, TaxACT became the first to offer free federal tax software and free e-file to all U.S. taxpayers.〔http://www.taxact.com/company/company_aboutus.asp〕 ==History== The company was founded as Infospace in March 1996 by Naveen Jain after he left Microsoft. He served as CEO until 2000. The company, which started with six employees,〔 built an online yellow pages service to be funded through advertising. A set of simple chat rooms (based on HTML and meta refresh) were also available on the site. InfoSpace went public on December 15, 1998. The company raised $75 million in the offering.〔(A Fine IPO for InfoSpace ) from ''Wired''〕 In July 2000, InfoSpace acquired Go2Net. After the merger, Go2Net CEO Russell Horowitz became president of Infospace.〔(InfoSpace to buy Go2Net to expand content delivery )〕 Also, in 2000, InfoSpace used a controversial accounting method to report $46 million in profits when in fact it had lost $282 million. Company executives skirted SEC trading restrictions to sell large blocks of their personal stock. Jain resumed the role of CEO in 2001,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=INFOSPACE INC (Form: 8-K, Received: 01/23/2001 17:15:42 )〕 but was forced out by InfoSpace's board as chairman and CEO in December 2002. By June 2002, the company's stock price, which reached $1,305 in March 2000,〔(The two faces of InfoSpace, 1998–2001 )〕 had dropped to $2.67. August 1, 2013, Blucora buys Monoprice in an all cash transaction. On April 21, 2014, Discovery Communications announced that they had sold HowStuffWorks to Blucora for $45 million. June 2, 2014, Blucora completes the purchase of HowStuffWorks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blucora」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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