Blucora Reports Third Quarter Results

Blucora, Inc. (BCOR) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.

“Our businesses performed well in the third quarter,” said Bill Ruckelshaus, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora. “InfoSpace is executing through changes in the search marketplace and TaxACT is readying for the coming tax season. We were also thrilled to add Monoprice to our Company in the third quarter. I am pleased with the focus of our teams and optimistic about the many opportunities in front of us at Blucora.”

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Qunar Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

Qunar Cayman Islands Limited ("Qunar" or the "Company") (QUNR), the leading search-based commerce platform for the Chinese travel industry, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,111,000 American depositary shares ("ADSs") at a public offering price of $15 per ADS, with a total offering size of $166.665 million, assuming the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional ADSs. Each ADS represents three Class B ordinary shares of Qunar. The Company's ADSs are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on November 1, 2013, under the ticker symbol "QUNR."

The Company has also granted the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase up to 1,666,650 ADSs within 30 days of today.

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NASDAQ Welcomes Criteo (NASDAQ:CRTO) to The NASDAQ Stock Market

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NDAQ) announced today that trading of Criteo (CRTO), a leading global technology company that specializes in performance display advertising, commenced on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on Wednesday, October 30.

Criteo enables companies to engage and convert their customers online whether they are on a desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Through its proprietary predictive algorithms, Criteo delivers performance- based online display advertising on real-time consumer data. Founded in 2005 in Paris, Criteo now employs more than 700 people across its 15 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, serving more than 4,000 leading e-commerce companies across 37 countries globally.

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Constant Contact Announces Third Quarter 2013 Financial Results

Quarterly revenue increases approximately 13% year-over-year
Adjusted EBITDA increases approximately 32% year-over-year

Constant Contact®, Inc. (CTCT), which helps more than half a million small organizations create and grow relationships with their customers through a suite of online marketing tools, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.

“We are pleased with our results for the third quarter. All three of our growth drivers– new customer additions, average revenue per user, and customer retention – performed well,” said Gail Goodman, chief executive officer of Constant Contact. “Our core email marketing business remains strong, and we are seeing gains in many of our newer initiatives. We believe our efforts are setting the stage for accelerated revenue growth and margin expansion.”

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Local Corporation Provides Location-Based Product Data for Microsoft’s Bing

Local Corporation (LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced that the company has signed an agreement with Microsoft, Inc. to provide location-based local product data for Bing.

As part of the agreement, Local Corporation’s Krillion™ shopping data platform is helping power Bing’s local product search results, including relevant retail locations, brands, categories, and product availability data and details.

“We’re pleased to be partnering with Bing to provide relevant local product shopping information to millions of consumers,” said Heath Clarke, Local Corporation, chairman and CEO. “Our dynamic local product data enhances the online shopping experience for consumers by providing them with valuable information about which retailers carry the products they are looking for.”

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