Zacks.com Announces That Bill Martin and Matt Ragas Highlight the Following Stocks: Digital Impact, Acxiom Corp. and InfoUSA

Business Wire, March 30, 2005

CHICAGO -- The online arena has experienced increased buyout activity from offline companies. Bill Martin and Matt Ragas highlight this consolidation and break down one of the most recent combinations Read about Digital Impact (NASDAQ:DIGI), Acxiom Corp. (NASDAQ:ACXM) and InfoUSA (NASDAQ:IUSA). Bill Martin and Matt Ragas are editors of the FindProfit newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84

Highlights from the March 28th Featured Expert column by Bill Martin and Matt Ragas include:

Struggling Digital Impact Taken Out At Big Premium

Another `Net name gets taken out by offline company as consolidation continues.

In the latest sign of the growing lust by offline companies to get a greater piece of the `Net pie, long struggling email marketing outfit Digital Impact (NASDAQ:DIGI) agreed to be acquired today by large offline data broker Acxiom Corp. (NASDAQ:ACXM). The deal comes at a big premium to DIGI`s Thursday closing price.

Earlier this month, DIGI had rejected a $2 per share buyout offer from InfoUSA (NASDAQ:IUSA), another large data provider, and DIGI had put in place a ``poison pill`` plan designed to block a hostile takeover. DIGI shares had been languishing at the $1.50 level before IUSA made its unsolicited buyout offer in February, which pushed the stock up to near $2.00.

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