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TrueCar's Painter To Step Down As CEO

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Painter has been CEO of the company since he founded TrueCar in 2005. Painter has recently been battling issues with the auto industry and dealers, who have been unhappy with company's data sharing policies--as well as the company's focus on providing consumers with realistic, upfront pricing and price transparency.

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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. How about IGN ?

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Brighter.com Dangles Free Braces In FamilyFinds Promo

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The deal looks to be the first sweepstakes promotion through FamilyFinds.com, which has traditionally offered up standard half price daily deals to its users. Coffin sold his last company, LowerMyBills, in 2005 for $330M; Winebaum sold Business.com for $345M in 2007.

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Amgen Names New CFO

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According to Amgen, Peacock joins from Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG, where he was CFO and Administrative Officer since 2005, and also has served at McKinsey and COmpany and Price Waterhouse. Kelly, who has been acting CFO since May. Peacock reports to CEO and Chairman Kevin W. READ MORE>>.

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Oversee.net Sues Former Employee of SnapNames

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Oversee said that it had also discovered that Brady had embezzled funds from Oversee, by fraudulently refunding himself a share of the purchase price for names he won. Oversee said Brady had affected about 5 percent of the auctions on the site since 2005, affecting about 1 percent of SnapNames auction revenue.

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Obviously, students can provide skilled labor at good prices. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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