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

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That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version. We got into the pay-per-click space early on, when Idealab launched Goto.com, which eventually became Overture and was acquired by Yahoo. We're able to do that by the traffic we tap into.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

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But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. The New York Times doesn't know that we've mobilized their site--we didn't need to use their server development team to make this work. That means these sites can be mobilized overnight.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. One of their partners is Ted Meisel, who we worked with closely when he was CEO of Overture, before selling it to Yahoo. He's been an integral advisor to us.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. firm's co-founder and CEO, was VP Emerging Ad Products at Overture/Yahoo; co-founder John Zimmerman was Managing Director of. get to all that data, in real time--which it describes as "mind-blowingly hard data problems".

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Skip to secondary content.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices.