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Austin, Texas-Based Online Business Information Database to Buy Maryland Firm.

Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX)

| July 13, 2000 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Heather Cocks

Jul. 13--Almost one year after celebrating its initial public offering, Hoover's Inc. is making its first purchase.

Hoover's, the online database of business information, said Wednesday it will buy Maryland-based Powerize.com Inc. for a stock-and-cash deal worth about $15.6 million.

Folding Powerize.com, another business-related site, into Hoover's gives the Austin company more ways to morph from a database of public-company information into an all-purpose business resource.

"We wanted to focus on promises we made to shareholders that we were going to build a business portal of substance," said Carl Shepherd, chief …

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