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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Answers.com to be taken private for $127 mln, (NASDAQ: ANSW)

Answers Corp (ANSW.O), owner of the popular Q&A website, agreed to be bought by private-equity firm Summit Partners for about $127 million in cash. Summit Partners, which will execute the acquisition through its portfolio company, AFCV Holdings, offered $10.50 a share for the parent of Answers.com. The offer price represents a premium of 18 percent to the the stock's Wednesday close.

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