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JULY 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , an online site focused on a combination of news discussion and questions and answers, announced today that the firm has connected the site to Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Tags: sodahead twitter facebook yahoo software integration news. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

San Diego-based DivX said Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! for breach of contract, after Yahoo notified the firm that it intends to breach its two-year advertising services agreement with DivX.

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JULY 31, 2012

Ross Levinsohn the then interim CEO has today left Yahoo. Levinsohn has left Yahoo and has not revealed his next task yet. He leaves after the Yahoo board chose Marissa Mayer as new CEO by passing him again. I am proud of Yahoo. I wanted to let you know that my time at Yahoo has come to an end. His compensation.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Huntington beach-based SurflineWavetrak , the parent company of Surfline , the go-to site for surfing forecasts and information, has raised $30M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from private equity investor TCG. As part of the funding, the company said it has appointed Kyle Laughlin as CEO of the company.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

According to Porch.com--which operates an online site which helps homeowners explore and get information on remodeling projects, including peeking into their neighbor''s projects and costs--Dossett will join the company in Seattle to head up all its profit and revenue responsibilities. and Microsoft. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Factual said that the data adds specific neighborhood information to details on places retrieved from its database, which is used by mobile app developers, web programmers, and others to retrieve information about nearby businesses and locations. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat, in its launch video, highlighted content from sources such as National Geographic, ABC, Yahoo News, People, the Daily Mail, CNN, the Food Network, and others. Studies have found that users are now strongly turning to social media instead of traditional news sources for their information. Launch video embed below. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat, in its launch video, highlighted content from sources such as National Geographic, ABC, Yahoo News, People, the Daily Mail, CNN, the Food Network, and others. Studies have found that users are now strongly turning to social media instead of traditional news sources for their information. Launch video embed below. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

TaskUs said it has named Balaji Sekar as its new Chief Financial Officer, Christopher McLaughline-Brooks as Chief Information Officer, and Lital Gilad-Shaoulian as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. McLaughlin-Brooks was at YapStone, and also served at Parallels, Business Objects and Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

StockTwits has been pursuing partnerships with major content sites, including Yahoo! Finance, CNN Money, Reuters.com and Bing Finance, to feature the information streams and discussions on those sites. StockTwits said that the newspaper will use its Ticker Streams on a number of its pages across the site.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

The company's app, which is free, runs on the iPhone and allows users to post information about their travels, document their movements, share photos, and more. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo!

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the provider of car shopping and auto information, reported Wednesday that it has settled a lawsuit against Humankind Design Ltd. Edmunds.com said it is also working with fifteen other review sites, including Google+, Yelp, Foursquare, Yahoo!

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the publisher of real-time automotive pricing information headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday afternoon that it has appointed Todd Daum as Chief Marketing Officer. Daum has also served at Overture Services/Yahoo, and also was at American Express. Automoti.com was sold to Hertz in 2009.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. We make it really easy for consumers to compare information across similar retailers, and find the best deals. For a consumer, that makes it difficult to find and compare information. What is Chippmunk?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TrueCar--which offers up automotive pricing information and automotive configuration and quoting software--said the sales came from more than 5,500 dealer partners. The firm's back end software is used to power the no-hassle, automobile purchasing programs from American Express, Yahoo Autos, AAA, USAA and Consumer Reports, among others.

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APRIL 24, 2012

DataPop's internet ad targeting technology which provides deep information on products; for example, instead of helping advertisers target people looking for a big screen television, the firm's products help target looking for specific brands and dimensions of a product. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Yahoo had 7.21% of marriages, and PlentyOfFish just 5.71%. One interesting tidbit of information that eHarmony did not point out in the study, but is striking, is that people who met through online services--particularly eHarmony--had much higher martial satisfaction than people who met offline. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Norton, Ph.D., These are willing to share data with a variety of companies if there is a perceived beneficial effect to the consumer behind the sharing.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Venice, California-based Tecca , the online and mobile site providing articles, reviews, how-to articles, and other information about electronics products, said Monday that it is now reaching over one million unique visitors a month. The site says it is now the largest technology website specifically catering to women. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2010

HP launched the new printers at the beginning of the week, showing a new device which allows users to directly access web information sites from a touch sensitive display on the front of those printers. No other details on the new printer app from DocStoc were detailed by HP.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

CapLinked said the new address feature makes sharing deals on the service easier, and also allows users to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail. CapLinked is looking to make it easier for companies raising money to provide information to both current and prospective investors. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! Eventually other networks will emerge. They have to.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Despite winging it, his talk was both informative and delightful. Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo! In His Dorm.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

According to Johnson, the site has just launched a new Questions feature, which allows users to ask others about information; moved up the prominence of its Discussions feature; and also improved its photo embedding tool. The Questions feature is much like Yahoo's questions and answers service, allowing users to ask any question on any topic.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

De Luca was previously the firm's Chief Information Officer and Customer Experience Officer. De Luca was previously VP and Chief informatoin Executive for Yahoo, and also served in a similar role with Interwoven.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline. ows are lower.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion. Norton, Ph.D., These are willing to share data with a variety of companies if there is a perceived beneficial effect to the consumer behind the sharing.

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MAY 3, 2010

He also had served at Chief of Insights at Yahoo!, Daboll also has served at MarketTools, Advertising.com, MediaPlan, Information Resources Inc. Daboll was most recently CEO of Bunchball, a firm developing consumer incentive and reward systems for brands and websites. and also was President and CEO of ComScore Media Metrix.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

De Luca was most recently the company's Chief Technology Officer, and had previously served as Vice President and Chief Information Executive at Yahoo! The company also said that it has added De Luca to the board. She also has been at Interwoven.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. As our knowledge of the human genome expands and our appetite for genetic information grows exponentially I think the team here is going to rock it.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Stop on by for informal casual networking. Attendees work at Sony Pictures, FOX Interactive, MySpace, Google, Yahoo!, Digital LA organizes mixers for professionals in online entertainment, marketing, and advertising. Join the Digital LA group if you haven't already to get our event updates!

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AUGUST 6, 2009

According to FlipGloss, it is powering photo features on Variety's Emmy Central destination site, which will allow users to flip through images from the Emmy's, including information on shows, actors, and more. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

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. We made lots of innovations in the user information and social identity realm.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0 READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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