Sugar trying to rollup women’s content sites, buys Coutorture
Sugar the San Francisco site for women’s content, will announce tonight it has acquired Coutorture, a network of about 230 websites and blogs.
It’s Sugar’s second purchase in two weeks (see our coverage of its acquisition of Shopstyle), and helps boost its traffic at a time when there are questions about it. Comscore showed Sugar’s traffic has remained at slightly more than 1 million unique users, though Sugar says its traffic is still at 5… Continue Reading
Sugar swallows Shopstyle — battle for women online continues
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Sugar Publishing, a network of woman-focused blogs, has acquired woman’s social shopping site ShopStyle, the latest deal in a fierce competition by a triad of companies hoping to become the leading woman’s Web destination. The amount of the transaction was undisclosed.
San Francisco-based Sugar is a relatively small network of content-oriented sites, but is backed by NBC and the respected and ambitious Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Previously, we’d assumed Sugar trying to… Continue Reading