Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) was a division of

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

focusing on

digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...

. CIM was created in 2005 and originally led by President,

Amy Banse Amy L. Banse (born April 22, 1959) was the Managing Director and Head of Funds for Comcast Ventures, Senior Vice President of Comcast Corporation, and serves on the board of directors at Adobe Systems Incorporated, Clorox, and Lennar. Education B ...

, and Executive Vice President, Sam Schwartz. Comcast Interactive Media products included: www.comcast.net (portal), fancast.com,

Fandango Fandango is a lively partner dance originating from Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has ...

thePlatform thePlatform was a Seattle, Washington based online video publishing company that was acquired by Comcast in 2006. The company worked with digital media companies to manage and publish video and audio. It was absorbed into the newly formed Comca ...

, and StreamSage. On May 15, 2008, Comcast Interactive Media acquired social-networking site

Plaxo Plaxo was an online address book that launched in 2002. It was a subsidiary of cable television company Comcast from 2008 to 2017. At one point it offered a social networking service. History The company was founded by Sean Parker and two Stanfo ...

for between $150 and $170 million, which was subsequently shut down on December 31, 2017. On August 5, 2008, Comcast Interactive Media acquired newsletter service site

DailyCandy DailyCandy was an online media company founded in 2000 by Dany Levy. The business originally consisted of a daily email newsletter that provided readers with information about hip and trendy events and businesses in their city. The emails first ...

for a rumored $125 million.

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