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News Corp. In Repeat With Sale To Local Tech Firm

socalTECH

acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Those numbers--and the story--seems to be almost an exact repeat of the story behind MySpace , which--also in 2005, in July--was acquired by News Corp. That deals loooks to be worth around $100M, based on reports from the WSJ. in a $580M deal. READ MORE>>.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

Tech Zulu Event

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. Kinect for Xbox 360, released in November of 2010, sold 8 million units in the first 60 days of its release.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. How did you get from iFilm to Frequency?

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

Both Sides of the Table

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. So by the time people started using Facebook for more business purposes or general “social networking” in 2010-2015 I really didn’t have any interest. I was always more the latter. Remember you can sign up for that here.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

As I prepare for my role as emcee in June for Convergence 2010 , I began to look back at how I got involved in radio. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. On June 3rd, I will emcee Radio Ink’s Convergence 2010 with keynote by Guy Kawasaki. Tell no one!

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

He’s been at it since 2005. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. >50% of our revenue in now viral.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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