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• Adult FriendFinder sale: "Sweet if it were true" [Andrew Conru]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Penthouse, Various Inc

  Andrew Conru, the porn baron of Palo Alto, is denying rumors that he has sold either his company, Various Inc., or its best-known property, Adult FriendFinder. "We haven't sold anything," he said. "It would be sweet if it were true." Conru has never raised outside money for his site and still owns 90 percent of Various. That means that any sale is

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• Did Andrew Conru sell Adult FriendFinder for $100 million? [Rumormonger]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Rumormonger, Top, Various Inc

  Andrew Conru is the accidental porn baron, the mild-mannered geek who found himself running a massive X-rated classifieds website, Adult FriendFinder, from sedate Palo Alto. Rumor has it that he just sold the site, one of his many properties, for $100 million. Michael Arrington reports that he may have sold his company, Various Inc., for $1

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• Adult FriendFinder sale to Penthouse now just "sweet" [Acquisitions]

  Published: December 11, 2007, 8:19 am

  Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Various Inc

  "It would be sweet if it were true," demurred porn baron Andrew Conru, when we asked if the Palo Alto porn baron had sold FriendFinder Inc., the parent company of porn-laden classifieds site Adult FriendFinder. Sweet indeed, then. Multiple sources have told us Various was sold on Friday, and one confirms that Penthouse is the buyer. A tipster says

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• Penthouse buys Adult FriendFinder [Acquisitions]

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Confirmed, Danni Ashe, Danni Com, Marc Bell, Penthouse, Top, Various Inc

  Congratulations, Andrew Conru: Danni Ashe is now your coworker. As the porn-magazine business quietly biodegrades in the ashbin of history, the founder of Adult FriendFinder has sold his company, Various Inc., to Penthouse for $500 million. This despite his earlier denials. The price actually seems low, considering Various's projected revenues

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• Penthouse Dips Into Social Networking Jacuzzi

  Published: December 12, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: News, Finance, Investments, Marc Bell, Penthouse, Pet Capital Partners, Various Inc

  Marc. H. Bell, CEO of Penthouse Media Group has decided to invest $500 million in a group of social networking sites in an effort to offset the dwindling revenues from pornographic video sales. Bell said that the company has acquired Various Inc. and its subsidiaries to assist in their plans to broaden its reach according to the New York Times.

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• AdultFriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc

  Right before Penthouse acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors."

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• Adult FriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc

  Right before Penthouse acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors."

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