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CONNECTED VENTURES
- Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2006 and headquartered in New York, NY, Connected Ventures is a new media network and development company consisting of CollegeHumor Media and BustedTees
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- CollegeHumor Media, founded by high school friends in 1999, is a leading online entertainment company comprised of CollegeHumor.com and TodaysBigThing.com; the site features extremely popular original content in addition to today’s funniest and most offbeat content on the web
- CollegeHumor.com has more than 9.8 million unique monthly users and over 111 million monthly page views ***; also has over 1.5 million registered users who are able to create school-based accounts and set up personal profiles
- The CollegeHumor brand extends offline with the two books, The CollegeHumor Guide to College
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- Faking It: How to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
, a television program on MTV, a live comedy show and a movie currently in development with Paramount Pictures
- Weekly email newsletter reaches approximately 284,700 subscribers
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- BustedTees, launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York City, sells nearly 31,000 products per month
- Over 3.5 million monthly pageviews*
- Writers of CollegeHumor create original t-shirt designs and have produced over 300 designs thus far
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THE DAILY BEAST
- Launched in October 2008 in beta by IAC and Tina Brown, The Daily Beast is headquarterd in New York, NY and curates the web’s best content offering fresh works from its own talented roster of contributors
- #19 on New York Magazine’s Reasons to Love New York in 2008
- 57% of visitors return to the site within 24 hours (Omniture SiteCatalyst, May 2009)
- Has over 68,000 newsletter subscribers and 45.7 million monthly pageviews*
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ELECTUS
- Launched in late 2009, Electus is a next generation studio enabling premium content creators to engage with advertising and technology partners at the inception of the creative process and partner on the finished product across a global and multi-platform distribution model.
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FILIFE
- Launched in June 2008 by IAC and Dow Jones & Co. and headquartered in New York, NY, FiLife is a personal finance site offering applications and tools to help people find investment information in a more intuitive way
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GARAGEGAMES
- Founded 1999 and headquartered in Eugene, OR, GarageGames is the maker of the Torque Game Engine series of tools, the original technology behind the Tribes series of games, and used to develop games on Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360 & Wii
- Together, GarageGames and IAC launched InstantAction in beta in March 2008 - the first web-based videogame network, offering graphically rich networked games that run in popular web browsers with no download installations required
- InstantAction has over 2 million registered users averaging over 41 minutes a day on the site
- GarageGames technology has been used to develop the following games: Fallen Empire Legions, Marble Blast, Rokkitball, Galcon, Think Tanks, Cyclomite, Zero All Productivity, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy, Penny Arcade Adventures, Dreamlords, Hinterland with many more in the pipeline
- GarageGames won a 2008 Front Line Award for its flagship game engine, Torque Game Engine Advanced
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GIFTS.COM
- Launched in 2005 by IAC and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Gifts.com is a premier gift shopping site, offering consumers a suite of interactive, personalized services that enable them to be better, more organized gift-givers
- Gifts.com receives over 7.7 million unique monthly users*
- For the holiday season of 2008, Gifts.com received 10 million visits with users conducting 22 million gift searches
- US News & World Report’s Top 30 “Best of the Web;” People’s Voice Award winner for best Services website at Webby Awards; 2007 named “100 Best Web Sites (for your wedding)” in Modern Bride magazine; 2007 highlighted as top gift site in the Dec. issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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LIFE123.COM
- Launched in July 2008 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, Life123 is a site where users can quickly find information on a wide range of topics delivering practical insights into things that can make a difference in everyday lives
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