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CEO William Ruckelshaus,Blucora, Inc. Insider Buys $32,700 of Shares on August, 8th, 2014

William Ruckelshaus, President and CEO of Blucora, Inc., bought 2,100 shares of Blucora, Inc. (Stock Symbol: BCOR) at $15.59 per share for a total amount of $32.7 thousand on August 8, 2014.

Blucora, Inc. is located in Bellevue, Washington.

On 08/07/2014, Blucora, Inc. announced its latest quarterly results. “We made progress in the second quarter,” said Bill Ruckelshaus, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora. “We are driving stability at InfoSpace through operational changes and focused execution. We were pleased to welcome Bernard Luthi as the new President of Monoprice, and TaxACT capped a strong season with impressive results and important advancements across our product offerings.”

According to Capital IQ, Blucora, Inc. has a market cap of $648.32 million, an enterprise value of $618.41 million, and trailing 12 month revenues of $649 million.

Blucora, Inc. operates a portfolio of Internet businesses in the Unites States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Search, Tax Preparation, and E-Commerce. The Search segment provides search services through Web properties of its distribution partners comprising software application providers, Web portals, and Internet service providers; and distributes aggregated search content through its owned and operated Websites, such as Dogpile.com and WebCrawler.com. The Tax Preparation segment offers online tax preparation service for individuals; tax preparation software for individuals and professional tax preparers, and ancillary services that consist of tax preparation support services, data archive services, bank or reloadable pre-paid debit card services, and additional e-filing services through its online Website taxact.com. The E-Commerce segment operates as an online retailer of self-branded electronics and accessories to consumers and businesses through monoprice.com Website, as well as through distributor, reseller, and marketplace agreements. The company was formerly known as InfoSpace, Inc. and changed its name to Blucora, Inc. in June 2012. Blucora, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

William Ruckelshaus’s most recent annual compensation from Blucora, Inc. is a salary of $900,450, $1,104,780 in other compensation, and a total compensation of $2,828,380. Mr. Ruckelshaus is 49 years old.

According to his biography, Mr. William J. Ruckelshaus is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Blucora Inc. Mr. Ruckelshaus has served as a director of Blucora since 2007. Mr. Ruckelshaus has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora since November 2010. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blucora, Mr. Ruckelshaus served as Chief Financial Officer of AudienceScience, Inc., a digital advertising and technology company, from May 2006 to November 2010. Mr. Ruckelshaus also served as Chief Operating Officer of AudienceScience for two years. From July 2002 to April 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Expedia, Inc., an online travel agency, where he oversaw Expedia’s mergers and acquisitions and led corporate strategic planning.

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All stories in DailyStocks.com are for informational purposes only. This is NOT a stock recommendation. This DailyStocks.com story is a daily light analysis featuring a stock with insider buying. With some caveats, insiders purchase a stock because they think the stock is going up. There are other factors to consider such as size of the transaction relative to their compensation and net worth. Sometimes, insiders might be propping a stock price up for future financing. Sometimes, the amount of insider buying are misread or misreported. Each month, DailyStocks releases a a summary of the stocks with insider buying. Sign up for the free monthly newsletter at DailyStocks.com . About Dailystocks.com: DailyStocks.com is the place where you can find stories about stocks with insider buying, where you can educate yourself about stock market investing, and where you can perform the stock search engine analysis – you enter a stock symbol, and you get a resulting page of stock ticker indexed links so that you do not have to type the stock symbol each time.