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About.com

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About.com (formerly The Mining Company) is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web. About.com was acquired by The New York Times Compan\

Milestones

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  About.com added Pace Lattin as Executive Consultant. (1/1/01)
  Posted 7/6/11 at 11:01am
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  About.com added Jim Anderson as Co-Founder. (1/1/95)
  Posted 7/6/11 at 4:48am
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  About.com added Martin Nisenholtz as CEO.
  Posted 5/10/11 at 8:16pm
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  About.com added Eric Bingham as Co-Founder.
  Posted 2/10/11 at 12:03am
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  About.com added Peter Weingard as Vice President, Marketing & Strategy.
  Posted 11/6/10 at 10:19am
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  About.com added Adam Fawer as COO. (1/1/01)
  Posted 5/25/10 at 2:06am
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  About.com added Alan Blaustein as President, Worldwide Corporate Development & Chief Integration Officer.
  Posted 4/6/10 at 8:47pm
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  About.com added John Caplan as President, Networks Group & CMO. (1/1/98)
  Posted 4/6/10 at 8:43pm
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  About.com added Scott Meyer as CEO.
  Posted 8/12/08 at 7:56am
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  About.com added Cella M. Irvine as Chief Executive Officer.
  Posted 6/11/08 at 2:21pm
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  About.com added Mark Josephson as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development .
  Posted 5/20/08 at 7:20pm
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  About.com acquired Vantagenet for $550k. (6/1/99)
  Posted 9/3/08 at 2:53pm via edgar-online.com
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  About.com acquired North Sky. (12/1/99)
  Posted 9/3/08 at 2:50pm via cyperus.com
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  About.com was acquired by New York Times for $410M. (3/18/05)
  Posted 5/20/08 at 7:21pm via writenews.com

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1. New York Times Company Acquires About.com (writenews.com) [edit]
2. About.Com Announces Acquisition of North Sky, Inc (cyperus.com) [edit]
3. About.com Inc Quarterly Report (sec.edgar-online.com) [edit]