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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

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Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! ” She added,”Yahoo!’s

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 million loss in 2008.

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Interview with Michael Kantor, Orgoo

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People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how how do you compete?

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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 invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2 So we're focused on technology, and financial services. I'd like to see the community working together.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Were all connected. Sponsored by Westin.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. NAME Facebook.