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Ptch Acquired By Yahoo

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Glendale-based Ptch , a startup developing mobile applications for sharing video and photos, has been acquired by Yahoo. Ptch had been incubated out of DreamWorks. Ptch said it will join Yahoo''s team to help bolster Yahoo''s photo and video platforms. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. We have some great mentors now.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.