IGN Entertainment Sells Rotten Tomatoes to Flixster
News Corp.’s IGN Entertainment has sold off its popular movie review aggregator/social network Rotten Tomatoes to the San Francisco, Calif.-based movie community Flixster Inc.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as part of the transaction, IGN will take on a minority equity state in Flixster.
Rotten Tomatoes has been part of the News Corp. family since 2005, when the conglomerate acquired IGN. RottenTomatoes.com pulls together reviews from traditional media properties and sites across the Web, a famously applies an aggregate score—i.e.
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