ditions copernic . this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message copernic a division of n. harris computer corporation type subsidiary of constellation software inc. tsx csu industry computer software founded july 31 1996 ; 20 years ago 1996 07 31 quebec city quebec canada founder martin bouchard & eric bouchard headquarters quebec city quebec canada area served worldwide products copernic desktop search copernic agent copernic tracker copernic summarizer services mycopernic copernic online backup number of employees 10 website copernic.com copernic inc. is a company based in quebec canada specializing in desktop metasearch engine technology for information on the world wide web . they also provide home and business software products for desktop web and mobile users through their web sites . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit mamma.com was launched in july 1996 by herman tumurcuoglu in montreal canada . 1 it was one of the web s first tier 2 metasearch engines . copernic technologies inc. was incorporated in july 1996 under the name agents technology inc. on december 22 2005 mamma.com completed its acquisition of copernic technologies inc. a search technology company founded in july 1996 in quebec city and maker of the desktop search utility copernic desktop search . in the preceding fiscal year copernic had a revenue of about 5.9 million and an ebitda of about 1.8 million ; mamma.com paid 15.9 million and issued 2 380 000 common shares . 2 on june 8 2007 mamma.com inc. changed its name to copernic inc. received a new stock symbol cnic 3 effective june 14 2007 and launched its new corporate website . on november 17 2008 the securities and exchange commission announced that it had charged mark cuban with insider trading . it was alleged that he directed his broker to sell his entire 600 000 shares of stock in the company to avoid losses in excess of 750 000 based on insider information . 4 on june 30 2009 copernic completed the sale of mamma.com and its third party ad net to empresario a privately owned digital media network based in chicago illinois . transaction took place as planned by the two companies and will allow copernic to reflect the details in their q2 report . the company proceeded to this sale in order to focus the company on new product offers . 5 on november 4 2010 copernic joins the family of n. harris computer corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of constellation software inc. 6 products edit copernic desktop search is a commercial utility for the microsoft windows family operating systems . it allows the user to instantly search files e mails and e mail attachments stored anywhere on a pc s hard drive . there are three versions of copernic desktop search cds available each offering a variety of features . the home version is a light and free version with a few less features than the professional and corporate versions . the professional version includes features such as the ability to search on network drives . the corporate version offers the ability to search ibm lotus notes and there is a deployment tool for major organizations . copernic agent is a metasearch utility for the microsoft windows family operating systems . as of january 31 2014 copernic announces that copernic agent professional will no longer be available for sale on january 31 . therefore new and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes . there used to be three versions of copernic agent available each offering a variety of features . the basic version was a light version with fewer features than the personal and professional versions and was free for non commercial use . the personal version had no ads and the professional version included a summarizer to summarize web pages . there is only a single version currently available which is free but is ad supported . it includes a number of ads in its search results increasing the results you need to sift through to find what you are looking for . at roughly the same time webferret also began offering only an ad supported version . there is currently no application available from any vendor whether free or commercial without many ads in the results like the personal or professional versions had been . references edit copernic inc. . canada business directory . archived from the original on 2012 03 31 . retrieved 2015 10 11 . mamma.com inc. acquires copernic for 15.9 million & 2.38 million common shares . copernic . 2005 12 22 . retrieved 2007 09 07 . yahoo finance sec charges mark cuban with insider trading . close of sale of copernic search assets to empresario . csisoftware.com external links edit copernic web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title copernic & oldid 738089585 categories internet search enginesmetasearch enginesinternet companies of canadahidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2012all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 21 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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