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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo! Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo.

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Science Inc. To Buy Social Bookmarking Site Delicious

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the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious , the company disclosed this morning. Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems.

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Geodelic Ships Application With T-Mobile

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According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local retailers, restaurants, and attractions. Aside from Sonnad, who was at thePlatform, the company includes executives from Shopzilla, Yahoo!, and Jamdat. READ MORE>>.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator.

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

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Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. Why not Los Angeles?

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. 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. We're also updating the format.

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. What I love about Los Angeles, is the breadth of industries here, and you can really see how technology and software are eating the world, here in our backyard.