Think Partnership to Acquire IceRocket.com Blog Search Engine
Posted on April 13, 2006
Think Partnership Inc. (Public, AMEX:THK), formerly CGI Holding Corporation, a publicly traded Internet company has announced plans to acquire the IceRocket.com search engine owned by Mark Cuban and Blake Rhodes. Blake Rhodes will become CEO of IceRocket.com following the acquisition.
"I am thrilled that IceRocket is uniting with Think Partnership, enabling us to connect the huge and growing blogging community to the business opportunities and network provided by Think Partnership, especially Litmus Media's Valid Click network and PrimaryAds' affiliate marketing network," said Blake Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes further stated that "we have spent significant time evaluating many opportunities within the interactive marketing and advertising space, and have concluded that Think Partnership was clearly positioned as one of the premier companies in our market as well as being a leading edge technology based company with the resources to execute on this exciting opportunity."Think Partnership runs multiple websites and web services including Cherish.com, a dating website, and Kowabunga, an affiliate marketing website. They also have a cost-per-action advertising network called PrimaryAds."I am looking forward to the completion of this deal and working with Think Partnership. Both of our companies are focused on providing the highest integrity services to our users and building core enabling technology that can eliminate click fraud and "splogging" on our networks in real time." said Mark Cuban, of IceRocket.
More information about this deal can be found at ValleyWag and in the press release.