infoGROUP Company Description
Huddled masses yearning for information can immigrate to infoGROUP (formerly infoUSA). The company is a leading provider of business and consumer information and research services for direct marketing, sales prospecting, and business intelligence. Its Data Group has 12 databases with contact and credit information covering some 15 million businesses. The Data Group also includes Web-based information firm OneSource Information Services. The firm licenses its data to third parties such as Google, Yahoo!, and AOL. infoGROUP also has divisions devoted to services (infoUSA Services Group) and marketing. Chairman and CEO Vinod Gupta owns more than 35% of the company, which changed its name from infoUSA in 2008.
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