Homestead Technologies

Type	Private company
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, USA
Key people	Justin Kitch, Founder and CEO David Wu, COO
Industry	Web hosting service
Products	Web services
Website	http://www.homestead-inc.com/

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Homestead Technologies is the owner and operator of a paid web hosting service based in Menlo Park, California. It has existed in various forms since launching in 1998 as a free service. Since then, it has expanded to include WYSIWIG site building tools and e-commerce services ^[1].

Homestead Technologies was also home to Photosite, a web hosting service tailored to amateur digital photography. In March 2005, Photosite was sold to United Online ^[2].

Homestead's CEO, Justin Kitch, maintains a blog. It was the source of controversy ^[3] when Mr. Kitch stated that customers were its third highest priority ^[4].

On November 26, 2007, it was announced that Homestead would be purchased by Intuit in a cash transaction valued at roughly $170 million. ^[5]

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• Homestead.com
• Homestead corporate site
• Photosite
• Company profile on Hoover's
• Best Home-Based Business Ideas - BusinessWeek interview with Homestead on the best ideas for small home businesses in 2007.
• Ten Clues that your Website is Dead - SMB News
• Web Sites: They're Not Just for E-commerce - Small Business Computing

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