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Google to acquire Frommer's travel publishing business
Aug 13th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is buying the Frommer's travel guidebooks, the Web search giant's latest move to amass a trove of content that could help its push into the local commerce market. The deal, which was announced on Monday morning by Frommer's owner John Wiley & Sons Inc comes nearly a year after Google announced plans to acquire the popular Zagat guidebooks, which offer reviews of restaurants, hotels and nightclubs in cities around the world. Google and Wiley & Sons did not announce financial terms for the Frommer's deal. ... (Source: Reuters) -
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