Sugar trying to rollup women’s content sites, buys Coutorture

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

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