PROVO, Utah (AP) -- Ancestry.com Inc. will acquire rival family history website Archives.com for about $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities, the companies announced Wednesday. The two ...

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc BX.N said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on ...

Ancestry.com, Inc. (Ancestry.com) is an online family history resource. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had over 1.4 million paying subscribers worldwide. The foundation of its service is a ...

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It may seem like a niche market, but genealogy research is a booming business. Interest in family history has spawned televsion shows, books, magazines, and conferences. Ancestry.com, whose main ...

Utah-based genealogy site Ancestry.com just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Valley-based startup Inflection to acquire its competitor Archives.com for $100 ...

"The registrant is attempting to capitalize on the valuable goodwill of Ancestry for its own commercial gain," counsel for Ancestry.com allege in a lawsuit accusing a rival domain of unauthorized ...

Ancestry employs AI and machine learning to expedite digitization of family records, boosting user tools and expanding historical data accessibility.

With more and more businesses becoming aware of the value locked inside the data they collect, many are becoming aware of a pressing problem. While traditionally a company has employed a data team to ...

The stake will be purchased from investment firms Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira, among others Ancestry generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue Company is facing a lawsuit over ...