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Swagbucks Rewards $15M in Prizes, Sees $25M In Revenues This Year

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Torrance-based Swagbucks.com , an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency or other rewards from taking actions online, has now given away $15M in prizes since its launch in 2008. The site also said it estimates a 100% increase in its revenues in 2012. The site says it now has 4 million registered users. READ MORE>>.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

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Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. Chances are you’ll come face-to-face with a dusty web design with information buried behind confusing menus, documents with inscrutable titles, and slideshows that move at the speed of continental drift. Government, in contrast, does not move quickly.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

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The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. HootSuite recently faced this common startup predicament: how to quickly hire quality candidates in large quantities.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

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The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

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in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. Now my company is 28-employees, we closed a round of three million dollars in May (2012).

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.