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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site. Bizzy said the site and mobile apps will be shut down by mid-November. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal announced Friday that it has acquired SMB:LIVE , a developer of digital presence and reputation management products for the small and medium sized business market. Tags: reachlocal smblive merger acquisition software local advertising. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Bizzy , the personalized, local recommendations site owned by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , told its users Friday that it has launched a new iPhone application for the service. Bizzy said it is also developing an Android application, but did not say when it expects to release it. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

DealOn , the developer of white label group buying software which was acquired by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , has just been sued over patent infringement by group buying site Tippr. another group buying site, over patents held by Kashless. According to a court filing, KashLess, Inc., DealOn, LLC et al.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia. As part of the big new funding, Andrew Braccia of Accel and Vic Parker of Spectrum have both joined the company's board.

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