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ValueClick Sells Web Clients Business

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Westlake Village-based web advertising firm ValueClick said late Monday that it has divested its Web Clients promotional lead generation business. ValueClick acquired its Web Clients business in 2005 for approximately $141M. Name of the buyer was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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Can Blip.TV Change The Indie Production Market On The Web?

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If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money. READ MORE>>.

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Interview: Isaac Garcia of Central Desktop

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Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. I would fly up to Redmond twice a week and we would all sit around a really large conference table – it was the largest (advertising) project Microsoft had ever done, a $100M advertising campaign.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. We''re now the longest daily web show, ever. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video.

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