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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. After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. I was doing that until 1995.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. Thanks to our advertisers. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI Elbaz is the cofounder of Oingo, which launched AdSense in 2000 and changed their name to Applied Semantics. by Howard Marks on September 19, 2012.