M&A Deal Summary

Conversant Acquires Shopping.net

On December 4, 2006, Conversant acquired internet software and services company Shopping.net for 13M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Conversant’s 6th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Conversant’s 10th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Conversant’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-12-04
Target Shopping.net
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Conversant
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 13M USD

Target

Shopping.net

London, United Kingdom
Shopping.net Ltd., a online shopping directory. A operator of 27 comparison shopping, search, and vertical content web sites for the European market.

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Buyer

Conversant

Westlake Village, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees1,289
Revenue 573M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Conversant, Inc. is a developer of an "Internet of Things Service Bus" (IoT-SB) which can securely and efficiently connect devices, sensors, and actuators to users, applications and databases for data analysis and process control.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 12
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 6 of 11
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 7 of 11
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 10 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-08-11 Fastclick

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Fastclick, Inc., is a provider in online direct response marketing services, providing optimization ad-delivery technology and services designed to maximize advertisers' return on investment.

Buy $214M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-07-16 MeziMedia

Monrovia, California, United States

MeziMedia, Inc., is a comparative shopping company that operates sites including Smarter.com and online coupon site CouponMountain.com.

Buy $352M