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About.com, one of the internet’s oldest and most familiar websites, is about to fully fade to memory. The IAC-based company has been slowly dismantling its content from an all-in-one site to bra

In its continued effort to divide and conquer, About.com is launching yet another standalone media brand in the form of The Spruce, a site dedicated to home improvement and food. The new site brings o

About.com is launching its third standalone brand in the form of Lifewire, a tech information and advice site. Lifewire will offer advice and answers on common tech questions and problems in the most

In a quest to dismantle itself and become more relevant in the 21st Century, IAC-owned About.com is launching another standalone vertical in the form of The Balance, a personal finance website tailore

In a prior era, some considered it best practice to bring in "professional managers" to run the businesses started by creative and hard-working entrepreneurs once those business began to scale and app

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.about.com/">About.com</a> has been around since 1996, but nearly 20 years later the company is undergoing a relatively large shakeup. Just recently, Neil Vogel

Even with 84 million uniques each month, About.com tends to fly under the radar. But there is change afoot since IAC bought out About.com from the New York Times last year, most notably the appointmen

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