DOLAN MEDIA CO. COMPLETES TWO ACQUISITIONS.Dolan Media (Minneapolis, MN) has completed the purchase of two companies, including Hogan hogan Dwelling of the Navajo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. The hogan is roughly circular and constructed usually of logs, which are stepped in gradually to create a domed roof. Information Services See Information Systems. Co. (HIS; Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm , OK) and clickdata.com (Golden, CO). No terms of either deal were given. Dolan has acquired HIS from parent First Data Corp. and the deal has been approved by the FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). . HIS gathers public records from across the U.S. on a daily basis, adds that data to its historical databases and sells the information to large credit-granting customers such as banks, credit bureaus and credit card issuers, and to marketing companies. HIS said it gathers approximately 50,000 new business records each day and that its primary database contains records on bankruptcies, civil judgments, evictions, criminal actions, and federal, state and county tax liens Tax Lien A claim imposed by the federal government to liquidate a persons property until owing tax and debt is fully paid. Notes: Tax liens can be purchased from the government in the form of an investment. . The company began in the 1980s as the public records data department of The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK) daily business newspaper when that paper was owned by the Hogan family. It was sold to First Data in 1996. Dolan said the deal also includes a multi-year data licensing agreement with First Data. Besides its stable of legal publications in 17 U.S. cities, Dolan specializes in the gathering of public records information for professionals in the law, credit, finance and construction industries. It currently carries over 100 million public records. Dolan said HIS will become a sister company to Dolan's Banko (Minn., MN) subsidiary, a vendor of banruptcy information. Dolan said it is now the largest gatherer of public records information in the U.S. In related news, Dolan has acquired e-commerce and Web developer click-data.com from parent Marketing Solutions Ltd. The acquired company began as a diskette-based reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. of information from annual books of lists published by regional and city business journals. It now specializes in integrating corporate and public record data into its databases and distributing that data via the Internet and other electronic formats. It has 70 information provider-partners, including directory companies and magazine and newspaper publishers. Dolan said it will "invest heavily" to continue clickdata's growth, including enlistment ENLISTMENT. The act of making a contract to serve the government in a subordinate capacity, either in the army or navy. The contract so made, is also called an enlistment. See, as to the power of infants to enlist, 4 Binn. 487; 5 Binn. 423; Binn. 255; 1 S. & R. 87; 11 S. & R. 93. of more information providers. Clickadata will form the nucleus of a new corporate group. |
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