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by ITV. Just heard it on the news. I wonder how it might affect us on Genes Reunited, Friends Reunited being the 'parent' company so to speak...!! Brian.

More info through a link on your Homepage

Hopefully we'll get a nice layout and proper moderators. The ITV website is laid out nice and they do competitions!!

From BBC News: ITV buys Friends Reunited website ITV hopes the deal will boost its online presence Broadcaster ITV has agreed to buy Friends Reunited, the website which brings together old school friends, for £120m ($208m). The website has more than 12 million registered users and profits have risen as the firm expanded to offer genealogy and internet dating services as well. ITV said it would pay an extra sum of up to £55m in 2009, according to Friends Reunited's performance. The deal will allow ITV to 'strengthen significantly' its online presence. Husband and wife team Steve and Julie Pankhurst, who set up the website with their business partner five years ago, are set to net about £30m from the deal. ITV wants to link the website with ITV.com in areas such as dating, recruitment and classifieds. Created by the merger of Carlton and Granada, ITV controls more than half of the UK television advertising market.

Brian, It probably means us lot on GR will be the 'poor relations'! >*|*<

Thats strange Brian. On my homepage it says 'thanks for entering the competition.' I haven't entered any competitions on here. How bizarre. I think my comps are going to my head lol

umm I wonder how they have separated it from GR? Maybe selling GR was too difficult because of the inteellictual property involved in each person's tree. Guess will watch this space JA

The deal is the whole group, which includes both companies.

Perhaps they don't fancy genes. I mean, who would want to cope with us lot:))))

My home page also says thanks for entering the competition, did i enter one then?? Lets hope i win then lol Donna

Its exciting isn't it Donna? Who are what are we going to win? lol

Oh its disappeared now. A gremlin in the works.

Brian, are you saying that GR has been sold as well?

Yes

Sent an email to them asking what that means about the trees on GR Had thought they had said that they would not pass on to a third partyy without permission....watch this space...last time I asked this I did not get a reply lol Maybe time to have the finger on the delete button Or maybe they will be more civilised lol

Guess we didnt win that comp then!! lol Its gone now!

J A I thought once you submitted your tree to GR it became their property anyhow ? .............................................................................. from T & C By submitting any material to the content to the Genes Reunited Service, you: are representing that you are fully entitled to do so; grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere; and authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.

Well Elaine, given that then all the trees are now common property accoeding to this ......as when I went to friends site they took me backj to GR each to amke a decsion JA

and I cannot delete any records from my tree, maybe because I amtired...good luck tp anyone who can..lol

I wonder how transference of tree-ownership works when a tree contains errors and duplications, such as my own? Can I be held responsible by a third party because my tree contains inaccurate information, or does the blanket disclaimer of responsibility by the site owners apply to me too? Interesting to find out, I think. If anyone asks and gets a reply, perhaps they'd pass it on. Due to lack of response to messages I've sent to GR in the past (and YES, I do know about pressing the buttons twice), I don't contact them any more. >*|*<