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News Corp. In Repeat With Sale To Local Tech Firm

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spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Does this sound familiar? Well, could be.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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Patrick Quigley: People often have the wrong perception of Vantage Media. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot. There is tech talent everywhere.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. You could just outspend.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.