Information-gathering company, Intelius, has released an app called Date Check that in minutes scans billions of publicly available documents stored on numerous databases and hidden in countless files ...

Bellevue Internet company Intelius has agreed to a $1.3 million settlement with the Washington attorney general after consumers complained they were tricked into signing up for an online ...

Before Facebook emerged on the scene, there was Classmates.com. Founded 20 years ago by a former Boeing engineer, Classmates developed a massive directory of students and military personnel in one of ...

Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill recently Googled her name, and to her surprise found an advertisement in the search results from Bellevue-based Intelius. That set the reporter on a quest to find out why ...

Seattle’s oldest social-media network, Classmates.com, was sold Wednesday to Bellevue-based Intelius Holdings for $30 million, a big drop from the $100 million price tag Classmates carried when it ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. At the peak of the dotcom bubble 12 years ago, Naveen Jain, an entrepreneur from the Seattle area, rode ...

Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s ...

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Remember Intelius, the company that was making a giant directory of unlisted cellphone numbers that you could search (and pay money for)? They’re changing the project after the huge negative response ...

Forbes lists him in its Top 100 Entrepreneurs and he had one of the most successful ventures of the Internet wave in the late 1990s. He dispels the claims about breakthrough technology innovation but ...

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Intelius is widely respected as a ...

People search engine Spock is about to be sold, say multiple sources. Spock was a hot startup back when it launched in 2007, but after an initial spike in traffic, the company has gone sideways and ...