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AUGUST 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based My Damn Channel , an online site which features professionally produced, humorous and other video content, announced a $4.4M The firm last raised funding way back in 2007. Tags: mydamnchannel damn channel venture capital content video online professional hollywood. funding round today. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

BabyAndBump.com was founded in 2007 by expecting parents. Evolve Media said the site now has over 170,000 members, with over 20 million pageviews of content per month. Evolve Media said that BabyandBump.com will become part of its Momtastic , its online community for moms. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The firm said the deal calls for MMC to continue to provide global content to the Mail.com portal, and will also work with United Internet to launch properties and distribute online content across various international markets. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Electronics Arts is shutting down Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios , according to an internal note leaked to gaming news site Kotaku. EA bought Pandemic in 2007, in a deal worth $775M. Tags: electronic arts games content pandemic shutdown layoff.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998.

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APRIL 26, 2010

San Diego-based SciVee , which operates an online Internet video site focused on advancing scientific knowledge, has inked a deal with Thomson Reuters, the firms said Monday. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet publishing and content effort run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported today that the firm has seen more than one billion video streams across its network of sites and branded YouTube channels. Tags: demand media video content publishing youtube. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Internet Brands said the acquisition will help it bolster the lineup of travel sites its owns, including FlyerTalk, Wikitravel, and CruiseMates. The Frugal Travel Guy was foundedin 2007 by Rick Ingersoll, who Internet Brands said will continue to produce the site after the acquisition.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Business.com offered up an online directory of local businesses, combined with content and expert commentary. Dex One said it will continue to manage the Business.com site and support existing customers through an extended transition period. Dex One--formerly known as R.H.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles- and San Diego-based video sharing site Veoh is claiming a major win today over Universal Music group, saying that a federal judge has thrown out a copyright infringement lawsuit against the firm. Veoh had been sued over user videos using music from the label in September of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Citing two people with "knowledge of the matter", Bloomberg said Providence had originally invested $100M in 2007, and will be paid $200M for its 10 percent share of the video streaming site. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp., and News Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 5, 2012

. <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

According to Webb in a post on the site, the video blog is going offline after X-Play went to taping five episodes a week at the beginning of the year. Webb started the project in August of 2007, featuring on-site ads and a "tip jar" for viewers to contribute toward the show. Webb is based in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

One of the big questions in the content world has been: what's the right formula to make content creation profitable on the Internet? And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? What is IBN Sports? It's a combination of revenue models.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. We get referring site traffic.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. I joined about a year ago--a bunch of us did--and looked at where Sidebar was as it was gearing up for a full consumer launch of its personalized content portal. What is Sidebar all about?

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is continuing to report good sales this holiday season, saying today that it has seen its revenues grow over 40 percent for the first 15 days of December, compared with 2007. Buy.com sells consumer electronics, hardware and software, books, games, clothing, music, toys, and more on its online site.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board. Tags: ventures steamboat video greystripe content game advertising. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board. Tags: steamboat ventures video greystripe game content advertising. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The firm operates Mail.com and a number of other Internet content sites. Mail.com operates a free web-based email service, along with content sites such as HollywoodLife and OnCars.com. Mail.com operates a free web-based email service, along with content sites such as HollywoodLife and OnCars.com.

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MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. I grew it from 2007 through. building a web site for him.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You can check out Parenting.com, MyWedding.com, ThePennyHoarder.com, all these sites are using Search IQ technology, and it's our own version of inside search. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Our core competency was in the search space.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Handschiegel sold Stylediary in 2007 to StyleHive. Handschiegel told socalTECH that the firm's projects include a redesign and positioning of an Internet site purchased from another company, and a TV project in developing and packaging it for shopping/sale; she also said that the investors in the firm are all from outside California.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. It's fun, I guess.

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. How long has the site been up and running? How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt. how does your company stay on top of all of that?

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites. The fundamental backbone of Big Frame is integrity and that resonates throughout the people that I hire, the person I chose to co-found my company with and also the kind of content we work (with) and create.". In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV.

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MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product. By 2008, FanLib was sold to Disney , which shut the site down soon after.

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JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Mark Tapling: Since you last did an in depth interview with us in 2007, the company has doubled in size. What we've discovered on the commercial business side, is that there is a massive need for translation of digital content on the Internet. That said, we made an entry into the commercial market in the digital content space.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. ShowUHow is venture backed and already has signed major retailers and manufacturers.

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