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JULY 10, 2012

According to a report> Tuesday afternoon from the New York Post, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook , is "eyeing" Kilar for a top job at the social networking firm. The rumor comes only a few days after Hulu said that Kilar had "graciously declined" to be considered for a job as CEO of Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based TopSpin Media has inked a deal with Facebook music page application provider RootMusic , to offer up an e-commerce app for musicians on the popular social networking site. According to the two, the deal will allow artists to sell downloads, merchandise, and tickets directly from Facebook.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , the venture capital firm of GeoCities founder David Bohnett , has invested in gay social networking site Fabulis. billion to Yahoo. Baroda Ventures Partner Peter Lee confirmed the investment in the New York company, which was worth $250,000. The deal was first reported by VentureBeat.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said Wednesday afternoon that the firm has launched a new offering which will allow users to link to the site while watching TV. Tags: yahoo intel myspace widget. Intel's Media Processor CE 3100 systems-on-a-chip are being used to connect the TVs to the service. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. We wanted to tackle that problem, by using a social network. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Los Angeles-based DailyStrength, an online health-related social networking site, has been acquired by HSW International, Inc., Hirsch was an early employee at Yahoo, and also served as a Vice President at Facebook. a developer of Internet businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing.

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JULY 13, 2009

The firm said that the new games, Kalorie King and Mars Lives, are the first in a series of new games designed exclusively for social networks and the iPhone. The firm also provides games for Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and others. King.com has been offering casual games through its web sites, King.com and MyGame.com, since 2004.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace said Tuesday afternoon that it has named three executives for the firm's music community, MySpace Music. Kantrowitz was most recently SVP International Marketing and Content for MySpace; Maghen was CTO at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Eventually other networks will emerge. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! They have to. Interview here). You know you want to.

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. Intent.com was co-founded by former Yahoo exec Sal Taylor Kydd. The new site fatures blog posting from Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton John, Ed Begley Jr., READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Amidst the media frenzy surrounding Facebook’s S1 filing to go public, some people took pause today to reflect on what the IPO could mean for the social networking giant. They’ll tell you Paternot was an entrepreneurial whiz kid who co-founded the very first social network in the 90′s called TheGlobe.com.

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MARCH 19, 2009

The firm said that it has commercially released its software, which helps artists generate demand from fans via direct marketing, social networking and other online channels, widgets, as well as email campaigns. The firm is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group, and its CEO is Ian Rogers, former GM of Yahoo Music.

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JULY 15, 2013

The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, What will Kaleio as a social network gain from the partnership?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Create a separate email address for your online/social media inquiries. Check out Gmail , Yahoo or Live , for example. MyPrivacy is a great tool that helps you locate where you are listed especially in some of the Internet white pages. It also allows you to remove your data from these websites.

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MAY 19, 2017

By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Yet another social networking site.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We built this to support corporate portals--companies that have a corporate presence on the web--but also see that social networks like MySpace or Facebook could use this technology to allow users at their site to communicate in their native language with other users. The last place I worked was at Yahoo. It also supports blogs.

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year. I’ll bet even Foursquare is thinking about an eventual life beyond badges.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing.

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APRIL 14, 2011

We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. Search engines.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how They can come into your inbox, or come into separate folders. how do you compete?

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6 But bill is a BIG idea guy. uh, hello!

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AUGUST 3, 2009

The late night didn’t make for a productive start to the morning but by the time Sean Percival got on stage to host the panel with Chris Brogan, Micah Baldwin (who started #FollowFriday) and Ben Huh (ICanHazCheeseburger) there was a great discussion on what it takes to be an Uber-blogger and social networker.

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MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100.

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