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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. BuzzLabs was based in Seattle.

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Citysearch Nabs Gorilla Nation's Louvion

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West Hollywood-based Citysearch announced today that it has hired on Christophe Louvion--the former CTO of Gorilla Nation Media--as its Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Core Products. Tags: citysearch christophe louvion gorilla nation executive internet advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Citysearch Expands Ties With Idearc

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West Hollywood-based Citysearch , the local online business guide owned by IAC, said Thursday that the firm has expanded its relationship with yellow pages publisher Idearc Media. Citysearch said it will integrate performance-based advertising from Idearc's Superpages.com site into its publishing network. READ MORE>>.

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CityGrid Media Launches APIs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC which operates CitySearch, Insider Pages, and Urbanspoon, said Thursday that it has rolled out three new advertising APIs for developers.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company.

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