June 1st, 2011

Tippr Acquires WhitePages' Group Buying Site DealPop

Launched less than a year ago, daily deals site and WhitePages subsidiary DealPop has been acquired by another company riding the group buying wave, Tippr.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this appears to be mostly a talent acquisition. → Read More

September 8th, 2010

Look Out Groupon – WhitePages Has Big Plans For Social Buying Site DealPop

It went by largely unnoticed, but directory services provider WhitePages launched a social buying website called DealPop last July, entering a field played by many notable up-and-comers such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Yelp.

Initially, DealPop was only available in Seattle, but the site is expanding to Los Angeles today and to San Francisco in the next two weeks.

The company has bigger plans… → Read More

June 4th, 2008

WhitePages.com To Buy Snapvine for Around $20 Million

Seattle based WhitePages.com, a people search and background information site founded in 1997 by Alex Algard, will announce their pending acquisition of VoIP and widget startup Snapvine later today. The acquisition price is not being disclosed, but is rumored to be around $20 million, all cash. This deal with SnapVine comes after WhitePages walked away from a Jangl acquisition (a competitor to… → Read More