Article: Lycos Sells Quote.com to Interactive Data Corporation for $30 Million.

Transaction Allows Lycos to Focus on Core Strategy Moving Forward

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com/), a media destination for creators and consumers of quality content, yesterday announced the sale of its finance site Quote.com(R) (http://www.quote.com/) to Interactive Data Corporation , a leading global provider of financial market data and analytic tools to institutional investors, active traders and individual investors.

On February 1, 2006, Interactive Data entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Quote.com and related assets from Lycos, Inc. for $30.0 million in cash. The acquisition is ...

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