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ReachLocal Hits $147M In Revenues

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500 listing was that Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a venture backed provider of local online marketing services, hit $147M in revenues in 2008, up significantly from $4.4M in revenues of 2005. Tags: reachlocal inc500 revenue search engine advertising. One of the revelations in yesterday's Inc. READ MORE>>.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Zac Brandenberg: I've been in the advertising space, and in online advertising and interactive for much of the last ten years.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. We were worried, if we took venture capital--and this was in 2008, before everything crashed--that if we had an investor too focused on the bottom line, the first time we hit a rough patch we'd be forced to push that 20 percent down.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

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Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Paltalk enables for an unlimited number of users to broadcast/view and chat within the same group.