WhitePages.com does exactly what you’d expect from the name — it tries to provide phone-book-style listings for both the U.S. and Canada. Of course, there’s nothing new about that, so WhitePages.com ...

Most times, when a venture-backed startup grows up, it provides a profit to its financial backers by selling to a larger company or going public. Either that or it doesn't grow up at all. It goes bust ...

New "Mailer" Tool Taps WhitePages' Trusted Contact Database to Help People Quickly Collect and Organize Mailing Addresses to Send Their Friends Physical Holiday Cards, Invitations and More Quickly ...

Alex Algard, the founder and chief executive of Seattle online people-search company Whitepages, is stepping down from the role to focus on running Hiya, a company spun out of Whitepages earlier this ...

Every day thousands of consumers go to Under Armour's website and click "buy" on a T-shirt or a pair of running shoes, transactions that total an estimated $500 million a year. To those customers it ...

WhitePages.com, which provides online-contact information, said Wednesday that it is buying fellow startup Snapvine for an undisclosed sum. Both companies are based in Seattle. WhitePages intends to ...

Some changes underway at Whitepages.com, the company that compiles public record databases on people and businesses: it is spinning out its caller ID operations and app as a new business called Hiya.

Not long ago WhitePages.com quietly introduced its own local business search. The site, the original “people search” engine, has always offered “yellow pages” listings but now the company has built ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new lawsuit alleges that whitepages.com has misappropriated millions of Americans’ personal information without consent to ...

In this interview, Alex Algard, the CEO of WhitePages.com, explains how the site has evolved from a directory assistance site to a broader people search engine, with an expected 160 million people on ...