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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” from Carnegie Mellon University. The old media companies were resistant to change.

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ReachLocal's Zorik Gordon On Daily Deals

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The buy puts ReachLocal squarely into the fast growing area of daily deals, but also potentially into competition with such companies as Groupon and LivingSocial. Zorik Gordon: We're going to be moving pretty quickly with integration, and rolling out aggressively in 2011.

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The Auggies – Augmented Reality’s Best

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SANTA CLARA, CA (April 26, 2011) – The Augmented Reality industry is getting ready to show off a new round of innovation to the technology, media, and marketing communities. For the Auggie competition, augmented reality teams get 5 minutes each on stage and compete for the coolest live AR demo. said Bruce Sterling.

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Mimiboard Replacing Noticeboards in Africa | Interview with Johan Nel Founder

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The Mimiboard beat ten other apps from Africa to be the best at the App demo competition held at the Nairobi Open Innovation Summit in May. Location based advertising and marketing is something that’s been attempted but not yet perfected. Umuntu received funding in September 2011 – the amount was approx. How many boards so far?

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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It's my belief that many marketers still measure in layers -- they might look at how direct mail, or search, or display, or TV, or brand advertising, or their sales force performs, in a certain swim lane. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. He's been an integral advisor to us.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Any competition in LA? Events pay a listing fee.