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FabFitFun raises $80 million for its growing lifestyle brand

TechCrunch LA

Last year the company crossed $200 million in revenue and managed to net over 1 million subscribers for the service. In a statement the company said the new financing would be used to expand FabFitFun membership offerings and consolidate its position as a marketing partner and platform for brands. ”

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. application services (security, integration), etc.

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Publishing 2.0: Social Media’s Transformation of Publishing

Tech Zulu Event

Now social media is even transforming the way books are made, with crowdsourced teams and publishing platforms that are as easy to use as WordPress is for blogging. Author of new book, “Finding The Next Steve Jobs” released via Net Minds. Tim Sanders , CEO Net Minds Publishing, Author, Speaker.

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With Vernalis Buy, Ligand Adds to Portfolio, Establishes U.K. Presence

Xconomy

million deal netted the San Diego company eight partner programs and a 70-person R&D team in Cambridge, England, plus about $32 million in cash after deal costs. It licenses its drug development platforms and makes royalty deals with big pharma companies, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share).

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