December 28, 2005
Mamma.com Acquires Copernic
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Mamma and Copernic finalized their acquisition deal…Acquires the search and information management solutions provider for $15.9 million & 2.38 million common shares.
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December 29th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
I’m not really sure what all the “desktop search” hype is all about.
December 29th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
I use Google Desktop for the News and Web Clips in the sidebar but I desactivated the search functionalities, I do not like Google to index my private files and I never really need to search my desktop!
December 31st, 2005 at 2:55 am
I’m very surprised of the price of the transaction.
Mr Bouchard, the CEO, gave the impression that Copernic was worth around 60M$ and Microsoft, a few years back, was allegedly considering the company for a comfortable 120M$.
What happened along the way for the price to melt to a mere 16M$?
Considering Mamma.com is raking big profits in PPC revenue, I’m surprised Mr Bouchard didn’t get the hint by himself before and strike a deal, directly, with Google or Yahoo for a healthy PPC deal.
Well, perhaps Mamma and Copernic know best and they’ll show us why they joined forces, in the months to come.
Long life to… “Mamma-pernic”!
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:09 am
$16M is still overpriced for Copernic. Google or Yahoo! all have their desktop search solution and I doubt they were interested by Copernic.