CMGI Getting More Attention & Press

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

CMGI (CMGI) is trading up 5% pre-market at $1.95, just a hair under the $1.98 recent highs.  The reason for the gain is that Barron’s has featured it positively in its online edition; you can read it (subscription required).  The stock was recently noted as a Buy with a $2.50 target by a boutique research firm.

This one is hard not to notice either as it is titled "A Dot-Com Flameout Catches Fire Again."  The online chat rooms are already passing this one around today, so it will probably get another flurry of activity.  We have still net been granted an interview of our own with the company, and what we really want to know is about the "other CMGI" via its @Ventures unit and its recent investments in alternative energy.  We recently covered this one as a company that has transformed itself from the old Internet Incubator days.  It recently made an ethanol related investment and it appears that the company with a new hire in alternative energy is going to focus more and more on the sector.

As CMGI is now one of the more widely held stocks and as it definitely has a very broad cult following again, this will be one to watch today.

Jon C. Ogg
March 21, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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