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Whitepages company history timeline

1999

In 1999, investigation firm Docusearch provided information to a man who used it to track down a New Hampshire woman named Amy Boyer, shoot her to death, and then kill himself.

2003

In 2003, Algard stepped down as CEO to focus on CarDomain.com, which he had also founded and Max Bardon took his place as CEO temporarily.

2005

By 2005, $15 million in annual revenues was coming from these contracts.

2007

Algard returned to the company in 2007.

2008

By 2008 the company had $66 million in annual revenues.

In 2008, Whitepages said it would start working on options for users to control their information on the site.

2009

The ability for consumers to add themselves to the directory was added in the summer of 2009 and being able to edit existing entries was added that October.

Whitepages.com underwent a re-design in 2009.

2010

In 2010, Superpages and Yellowpages cut back spending with Whitepages from $33 million to $7 million, causing a substantial decline in revenues and a tense relationship with investors.

2011

Whitepages released the Localicious app in July 2011.

2012

An updated Android app called Current Caller ID was released in August 2012.

2013

In June 2013, Whitepages acquired Mr.

It was updated in July 2013 with new features, such as the ability to customize the layout of caller information for each caller and the ability to "Like" Facebook posts from within the app.

Algard spent $50 million in cash the company had on-hand and $30 million from a bank loan, to buyout the investors in 2013.

2015

In 2015, WhitePages acquired San Francisco-based NumberCorp to improve the database of phone numbers used for scams in the Caller ID app.

2016

In September 2016, Alex Algard stepped down as CEO of WhitePages, in order to focus on the mobile spam-blocking spin-off Hiya.

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Founded
1997
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