• Update: Classmates IPO is Pulled

    Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More

    classmates-logo.pngWith the IPO market cooling, United Online has pulled the IPO of its Classmates.com business. No surprise here. I thought the filing smelled funny from the get-go. Nobody else was buying Classmate’s story either. Let’s see, a high churn rate, an FTC investigation, and hints of self-dealing. No wonder investors passed.

    How is United Online going to get back that $50 million it “loaned” to its subsidiary now?

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