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Local.com Drops LEC Billing Acquisitions

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The firm had recently been acquiring small business customers being served by LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) billing, where customers were billed for operating their web sites through their phone bill. down and $495 per month for customers who want the firm to develop keyword-based local web sites. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. It’s core platform stuff.

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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. SendGrid has seen massive growth and adoption, as thousands of web developers have discovered that the company--which has major. Forum , says "New platforms are very interesting to CTOs. The firm's software is now being.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. With the foundation laid the application layer has had its moment.