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Goodbye, Geocities: Final Sunset As Japanese Site Closes

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Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Wrapal: Creating A Marketplace For Film Locations

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They go on to the site, list their property, including such details as address, parking, noise level, and square footage, pretty much the same as listing their house on a real estate site. Brian Tan: We make our money on advertising. There's a non-intrusive, banner ad on the site. Then, that gets uploaded to our database.

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walker, Hydra

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Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walter, Hydra

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Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

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After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. The site itself was originally meant for women, but we began noticing a large portion of our readership was male. We got stuck early on with technology and we had to learn from the past to make the process much smoother now. Entertainment. While at E!,

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. Sept Real Estate Auctions.