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always thrilled when we get some, especially when it's
positive. At the very least, nothing legitimizes Inflection's
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an article in a newspaper, a form of media known for its
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The Christian Post

Inflection's Omaha team staying put after $100m sale of Archives.com

Chalk any uptick in midweek traffic at the Kobe Steakhouse in west Omaha this week up to patronage from the folks at Inflection. More »

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Ancestry.com Agrees to Buy Archives.com for $100 million

Matthew Monahan, the CEO of big-data startup Inflection, had to wake his brother and co-founder, Brian, in the middle of the night, so he could witness the signing of a $100 million deal in which family history site Ancestry.com agreed to buy Archives.com. More »

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Archives.com Joins the Ancestry.com Family for $100M

Following its high-profile release of the 1v940 U.S. Census as official government partner, Archives.com is being bought by Ancestry.com for $100 million in cash. More »

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Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million

Utah-based genealogy site Ancestry.com just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Valley-based startup Inflection to acquire its competitor Archives.com for $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities. More »

The Christian Post

Ancestry.com buys Archives.com for $100M

Ancestry.com, a publicly-traded genealogy company with a $1 billion market cap, announced late Wednesday that it's buying privately-held Archives.com, a provider of similar family-history services, for about $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities. More »

The Christian Post

ELCA, Archives.com Partner to Digitize Millions of Church Records

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has forged a partnership with a major family genealogy website in which the denomination will have hundreds of reels of microfilm containing church records between 1793 to 1940 digitized. More »

Los Angeles Times

1940 census records are a smash online hit

Americans responded in overwhelming numbers Monday to the online release of detailed information from the 1940 census — the first time such a trove of historic census records has been available on the Internet. More »

MSNBC

Did US taxpayers get a good deal? Census 1940 site was built for free

Who says there's no free lunch? You may have read over the past week about the release of 1940 Census records on a new U.S. government website, a site that buckled under the huge demand from people looking up details on the lives of their friends and relatives... More »

The New Yorker

Found in the 1940 Census

Interest in yesterday's online release of the 1940 census records was so great—over twenty-two million hits in the first three hours of operation, thirty-seven million by mid-afternoon—that the National Archives Web site crashed and was unavailable for most of the day. More »

Deseret News

1940 census goes live April 2, expecting 250,000 thousand indexers

Archives.com and the National Archives have set up a site where the 1940 census will digitally be made available free of charge beginning
April 2, which will end a 72-year wait for the records. More »

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National Archives Announces Website for Free 1940 Census Release Online on April 2, 2012: 1940census.archives.gov

Today the National Archives, with its partner Archives.com, launched its new website 1940census.archives.gov in preparation for its first-ever online US census release, which will take place on April 2, 2012. More »

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With Millions Of New Records, Inflection Delivers One-Two Punch To Ancestry.com

Inflection may be the hottest Silicon Valley company you've never heard of. That's largely because they've invested all their time in just building a big business, and almost none of it in talking about it. More »

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Welcome, entrepreneurs

Yoseph Ayele connected with Silicon Valley's Inflection, a firm that aggregates public records and puts them online, at an OCS event last year. This year he was back on campus to sing his company's praises and to help recruit future graduates. More »

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National Archives Announces Web Hosting Contract Awarded to Inflection

The National Archives today announced its selection of Inflection, parent company to family history web site Archives.com, to design and host a free web site for the April 2, 2012 launch of the 1940 U.S. Census. More »

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Adaptive Path Founder Calls it Quits

Peter Merholz, the man who co-founded strategy and design firm Adaptive Path and coined the term "blog," has left the agency to work at a Silicon Valley startup. More »

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Inflection Sees Big Opportunities in Big Data

By some estimates, 90 percent of the digital data in existence was created in the past two years. A large part of that data concerns people: social networking profiles, certainly, but also... More »

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Employers Recruiting Off-Campus

Amid a hiring slowdown and bleak prospects for any turnaround, corporate recruiters have scaled back their visits to the nation's college campuses. More »

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Archives.com to Add Entire US Census

Genealogy subscription site Archives.com will add indexes and images for the entire US federal census, probably the most-used US genealogical record... More »

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Startup Aims to Digitize Records

It started in Mather House five years ago with an idea—take public records and put them online. More »

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Archives.com Plots Online Family History Trends

Archives.com has just released an interesting summarization of trends in online family history and genealogy along with this neat infographic... More »

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Archives Launches Grant Program for Genealogy Research and Preservation

Are you working on a family history or historical preservation project for your family or community, but don't quite have the funds to complete it? More »

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Archives.com Adds Millions of Records

Subscription genealogy site Archives.com has added more than 40 million new digital records and 110 million scanned newspaper pages dating back to 1753. More »

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Inflection record $30m Series 'A' for archives.com

Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »

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Inflection Gets $30M, Launches PeopleSmart

Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »

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Archives.com Owner Inflection Raises $30 Million

Inflection, an under-the-radar startup which owns genealogy website Archives.com, has raised $30 million in a first round of funding. The company... More »

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Inflection Lands Big First Round For Public Records Search

Searching for people online makes up a big percentage of search engine queries, but building a company in this space has been challenging for start-ups. More »

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Bootstrapping Band of Brothers Raise $30M for People
Search Engine Inflection

Brian and Matthew Monahan weren't quite sure how to raise venture capital funding, so they built Inflection from scratch and made it profitable with its first website for searching public records, Archives.com. More »

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A Phonebook for the 21st Century

A start-up called Inflection wants to build a 21st-century version of the phonebook. Inflection operates Archives.com, a family history site that gathers... More »

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Inflection Secures $30 Million to Transform Public
Records Industry

Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »

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