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EarthLink Acquires New Edge Networks
April 18, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet service provider EarthLink (earthlink.com) announced on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of virtual private network provider New Edge Networks, securing multi-site managed data networks and dedicated Internet access for businesses and communications carriers.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, EarthLink has acquired 100 percent of New Edge Networks for 2.6 million shares of EarthLink common stock and $114.3 million in cash, including cash to be used to satisfy certain liabilities.
"This acquisition forms the nucleus for EarthLink's continued expansion into the fast growing business network market," says Bill Heys, president of EarthLink's value and small to medium enterprises business unit. "We believe that New Edge Networks' national coverage called 'BigFoot,' proprietary systems, and practical know-how are strong competitive advantages."
Additionally, EarthLink was required to grant options to purchase up to 657,000 shares of its common stock to New Edge Networks employees. These options are "inducement grants" to new employees in connection with EarthLink's acquisition of New Edge Networks that qualify under the "inducement grant exception" to the shareholder approval requirement of NASD Marketplace Rule 4350(i)(1)(A).
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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