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Goodbye, Geocities: Final Sunset As Japanese Site Closes

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Geocities had allowed anyone to create their own web page, and hosted those pages--replete with overlaid advertising--for free. billion in stock and options in 1999, establishing a foothold for Internet and technology startups along what is now commonly called "Silicon Beach". READ MORE>>.

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Hydra Snags Exec From LowerMyBills

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Beverly Hills-based Hydra , a pay-for-performance advertising network, said yesterday that it has named Josh Eldrige as the firm's Director of Display Media. Eldrige has also served at CarParts Technologies, L. Hydra operates an advertising network where advertisers only pay if the firm generates leads or customers.

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ReachLocal Tops Fast 500 List

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Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent.

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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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Reflections on 2016: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? READ MORE>>.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. But things can change in technology businesses in very short order when the company is not yet at scale (sub -$50 million in revenue) and getting greedy can be very costly to the funds' returns.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

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Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. Belkin is also here, as are digital entertainment firms Konami , ICANN , Rovi , as well as Cybercoders and USC Institute for Creative Technologies. But the tech culture of Los Angeles is shifting real estate’s center of gravity. In West L.A.,