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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

It also allows you to share on Google+, Facebook or text message in the app, as well as to Twitter and email. To make soup taste better, Google added that its working on an optimized version of the YouTube app for iPad to be launched in a few months. In Quarter 2 of 2012, Google ad revenues were $10.96 Social Videos.

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APRIL 23, 2012

By 2006, Mr. Boden had established the website as the 3rd largest website in Asia (behind only Google and Yahoo) and as one of the top 100 websites in the world. In October 2007, Badongo.com raised a seven figure round of funding from a number of well-known angel investors, including super angels, Peter Thiel and Mike Maples.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright. Despite that, MP3tunes did pave the way for similar online music locker services like Amazon.com and Google's own. According to Robertson, in an interview with CNET, the bankruptcy filing came due to overwhelming legal costs to fight a battle with EMI.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. But here’s the big “aha.”

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MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. De Beers produced industrial diamonds, but found a market as well in engagement rings.

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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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DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com? What were you doing before IconFinder?

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MAY 19, 2009

Business.com claims that the metrics in the tool are unavailable through other web analytics programs, and specifically addresses limitations in such products like Google's Urchin analytics tools. Donnelley back in 2007. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Calacanis said that Mahalo has a "rigorous" hiring process, but that the firm failed to do a "simple Google search" which would have revealed the fact that Schiefer had been convicted of hacking. Calacanis said that the firm hope to "offer him a job" when Schiefer finishes his sentence.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. This last season, we did over 600 high school football games all over the country, and signed a partnership with Google/YouTube and others. John Mudge: We started working with Google/YouTube last year.

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MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. Any big surprise that Chris is a very early investor in Twitter founded by Evan Williams who worked at Google after selling them Blogger.com? The Details: I recently finished reading “ The Big Short ” by Michael Lewis.

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JULY 5, 2012

Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. - It''s all about staying on top of things, such as mobile trends, changes to Google algorithms, that''s something we do on a day-to-day basis. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The Past (1985-2002).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. Their only option is an IPO. There are just not buyers out there.

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JULY 6, 2015

We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. If you had a good keyword, that might give you a better place in Google's search engine, and that became the dominant reason for a domain. That's our bread and butter.

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JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Competitors: Google. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). -Also offers premium ad campaigns to publishers by tracking reader intent, behavior, and demographics. Total raised: $18.3mm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? It makes you want to move north!

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AUGUST 2, 2009

My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. But when Michael Arrington announces that he’s giving up his iPhone because he’s pissed off with the network and with your blocking Google Voice then you sure better know.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Cats or dogs? Freedom: neither”. Winter or Summer Olympics? “I

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 You'll see our sponsorships like those of Google--they'll be very clearly stated, and we won't be biased by advertisers. But, advertisers will know you've got to be where people are comparing products. How is the firm funded?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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MAY 7, 2012

our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. What are your thoughts on that? Now, it's long, and complex.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Acquired by Google for $700mm in cash. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools. -Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is ITA Software.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Im sure that many of you have read Guys article Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn.

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