NexTag
price comparison service
Nextag was an independent price comparison service website for products, travel, and education. It started as a website where buyers and sellers could negotiate prices for computers and electronics products. From 2000, the business model focused on comparison shopping. NexTag also owned Hamburg, Germany-based Guenstiger.de. It provided functionality for tracking the historical prices of a product across various sellers.
Nextag's headquarters were in Redwood Shores, California.
In June 2007, Providence Equity Partners purchased a two-thirds majority of the company for $830 million, valuing NexTag at approximately $1.2 billion. Los Angeles-based private equity firm Regent purchased the company in March 2015.
The NexTag.com website went offline on or about December 28, 2018, with no formal public closure announcement. Industry sources reported in January 2019 that the company had gone out of business.
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