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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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Ad.ly, Diversifying From Twitter, Looks To Facebook

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Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup, is further looking to diversify its service from Twitter, saying this week that it has added support for Facebook. had added support for MySpace in June, shortly after Twitter said it would not allow other companies to automatically include advertising into Twitter. Both Ad.ly

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back. Andy Steuer: It's actually out of Idealab proper.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. billion to Yahoo!