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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Connexity said that it is integrating social networking and recommendation engine technology into its advertising technology. Gross started and headed up FastClick, taking it to an IPO in 2005, and eventually selling the firm to ValueClick. The funding round came from Persistence Partners, which is also headed by Gross.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. To give you an idea, we're indexing over half a billion social posts every day, and over 5 million new videos every single day. What is Frequency?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? The second customer is the social networking sites.

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JUNE 30, 2011

I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. There's been a dramatic shift in recent years from the traditional videogame model, to social, mobile, and casual games. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. How we differentiate from other social networks that are more general, is that we offer lots of features specific to travelers. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. He graduated from U.C.

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JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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