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UberMedia Names VP

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Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile and desktop messaging and social media apps, is announcing this morning that it has hired Ken Rudman as its Vice President of Developer Relations. Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo! Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo!

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media. We got into the pay-per-click space early on, when Idealab launched Goto.com, which eventually became Overture and was acquired by Yahoo. Our core competency was in the search space. Years later, I bought the company back, and we rebranded in 2012 to Ad.net.

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. What is Chippmunk? Brian Nickerson: Chippmunk is a savings search engine.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. bought RightMedia and Microsoft bought AdECN a few years ago.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. That seems to be the case for lots of AOL / Yahoo! They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d.