LookSmart
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1997 |
| Headquarters: | San Francisco, CA |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | www.looksmart.com |
| LinkedIn: | LookSmart |
| Key People | |
| Jean-Yves Dexmier, Executive Chairman & CEO | |
LookSmart is a pay per click (PPC) advertising network solutions provider. LookSmart is a public company and it is trading at NASDAQ under the ticker symbol LOOK.O. Jean-Yves Dexmier is the Executive Chairman & CEO of the company. Its headquarters is located in San Francisco, CA.[1]
History
In July 1996, LookSmart was established and its official website was launched on October of the same year. The company is a subsidiary of Readers Digest, a global publishing and marketing company of books, magazines, music, videos and other forms of new media. Look Smart went public on August 1999 with an offering price of $12 per share and reached as high as $70 in 2000.[2] [3]