jupitermedia

Jupitermedia has great assets, a long history and is still run by the founder, Alan Meckler, who built the company from the ground up. As of this writing JUPM is at 45 cents a share, which values the company at only $16.25 million. It appears that there is no rational reason to explain this low valuation except that there are apparently very few investors interested in the stock.

The market's doing its best imitation of a healthy Superman this morning - up, up, and all that - but Jupitermedia has been left on the sidelines.  Following the corporation's report on its fourth quarter earnings, Jupitermedia's stock is acting in a less than heroic fashion.

Transparency's nice - assuming that a person (or company) is indeed being transparent, and you're not so paranoid that you can't believe it, you get to find out many of the who-what-when-where-why details.  And in that spirit, Alan Meckler, the CEO of Jupitermedia, has announced his purchase of some stock and referenced his company's future.

Jupitermedia has ended talks with Getty images concerning a possible merger. In a press release from February 22 the company confirmed they were in discussions with Getty Images only after speculative articles had been written in the business press about the proposed deal.

Shares dropped 70 cents before Jupitermedia announced after market-close that revenues and net income grew for the company in the third quarter.

Search marketers were surprised yesterday by the announcement that three of the most influential publications in the search marketing sector had quietly been sold to new owners.

ClickZ, which Jupitermedia had purchased for nearly $20 million USD, and the Search Engine Strategies trade shows, went to UK-based Incisive Media for $43 million.

Jupitermedia announced the winners of its Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo Best of Show Awards, which concludes today at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.