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Under the deal announced Thursday, Ask Jeeves will double in size with the acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings, a privately held company in Irvington, N.Y., with about 200 employees and more than $100-million in annual revenue.
The Interactive Search operations will remain in New York after the takeover closes in the second quarter, with most of the workers, including company co-founders Bill Daugherty and Jonas Steinman, expected to be retained.
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The game also won three other awards, including nods for innovation and online play for Redwood City, California-based EA at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ 6th Annual Interactive Entertainment Awards in Las Vegas.
Coming in behind EA was Japanese game publisher and hardware maker Nintendo Co. Ltd.7974.OS with seven awards, including three for the game “Animal Crossing” for its GameCube machine.
Although the major Hollywood awards, such as the Oscars, can boost a movie’s take at the box office and in video, there is no evidence yet that the upstart game awards provide a similar lift to sales.
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