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Idealab's GoPollGo Acquired By Yahoo

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Mobile, but would also be shutting down its properties, including its service, widgets, and mobile app. Idealab made its investment in GoPollGo back in June of 2011, one of a series of Twitter-related investments by the startup incubator during that time frame. According to GoPollGo, it will be joining Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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ValueClick Buys Greystripe

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Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. The company expects Greystripe to add $24 to $26M in revenues for the remainder of 2011. The deal was worth $70M in cash. in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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. · Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. Swing by Swing, a mobile app for golfers, has over 1,300,000 members.was one of the innuagural investments for 28-year-old Mike Rothenberg’s Rothenberg Ventures. The founders previously ran another company together.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion.