Consolidated Businesses (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Reconciliation of Activity Related to Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest

The following is a reconciliation of the activity related to Actua’s redeemable noncontrolling interest during the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 (in thousands):

Balance at December 31, 2013	$	3,442
Redeemable noncontrolling interest portion of subsidiary net income/(loss)		11
Accretion to estimated redemption value		594
Impact of subsidiary equity transactions		7
Balance at March 31, 2014	$	4,054
Balance at December 31, 2014	$	6,221
Redeemable noncontrolling interest portion of subsidiary net income/(loss)		(68	)
Accretion to estimated redemption value		1,303
Equity transfer among owners		(3,339	)
Impact of subsidiary equity transactions		(631	)
Balance at March 31, 2015	$	3,486

FolioDynamix

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Allocations of Purchase Price to Identified Intangible Assets and Tangible Assets and Liabilities

The following table summarizes the preliminary allocation of the consideration paid for FolioDynamix and the estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed.

	(in thousands)
Consideration:
Cash consideration (including $0.7 million of working capital adjustment paid in 2015)	$	201,699
Fair value of stock options of FolioDynamix		4,125
	$	205,824
Recognized amounts of identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed:
Financial assets	$	9,324
Property, plant and equipment		1,581
Customer lists (10 year life)		23,300
Trademarks, trade names and domain names (5 year life)		8,100
Technology (8 year life)		15,200
Financial liabilities		(14,397	)
Contingent consideration		(1,870	)
Deferred tax liability		(1,585	)
Total identifiable net assets		39,653
Goodwill		166,171
	$	205,824

Other Acquisitions

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Allocations of Purchase Price to Identified Intangible Assets and Tangible Assets and Liabilities

The allocations of the KMI, Ludwig and NuCivic purchase prices to identified intangible assets and tangible assets and liabilities are as follows (in thousands):

	KMI		Ludwig		NuCivic
Net assets acquired:
Goodwill	$	6,735	$	314	$	1,257
Customer lists (5-11 year life)		2,900		2,658		202
Trademarks, trade names and domain names (5-11 year life)		300		-		330
Technology (5 year life)		400		-		-
Non-compete agreement (5 year life)		-		164		14
Other net assets (liabilities)		1,165		-		197
	$	11,500	$	3,136	$	2,000

FolioDynamix, NuCivic, KMI

Business Acquisition [Line Items]

Pro Forma Information

The information in the following table represents the revenue, net income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to Actua Corporation and the net income (loss) from continuing operations per diluted share attributable to Actua Corporation for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014, had Actua owned FolioDynamix, Bolt owned Ludwig, GovDelivery owned NuCivic and MSDSonline owned KMI during that entire period. The information for the three-month period ended March 31, 2015 is shown for comparative purposes only.

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015			2014
	(in thousands, except per share data)
Revenue	$	30.6		$	26.6
Net income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to Actua      Corporation	$	(14.8	)	$	(11.8	)
Net income (loss) from continuing operations per diluted share      attributable to Actua Corporation	$	(0.40	)	$	(0.32	)