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which was filed in 2007. Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. According to eHarmony, it is in an agreement to settle Carlson, et. eHarmony, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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Flektor, the online web slideshow and photo and video sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media, appears to have completely disappeared as of this morning. The service's web site now goes directly to the MySpace home page. The service's web site now goes directly to the MySpace home page. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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MAY 19, 2009

Business.com claims that the metrics in the tool are unavailable through other web analytics programs, and specifically addresses limitations in such products like Google's Urchin analytics tools. Donnelley back in 2007. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Sodahead.com, which operates a web site where users can ask and answer questions, share opinions, and network with other users, said that it has now recorded more than 5 million votes and 8 million comments on the site. in venture funding since its launch in September of 2007. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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MARCH 3, 2009

The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim. Phonevite is angel backed, and allows users to record messages via the web or a phone, add phone numbers to send that message to, and schedule a time to send the message.

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After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. You then caught things like Web 2.0, Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The report, which compared the total number of searches for the terms between December 2007 and December 2008, found that there was an increase of 206% in people searching for the term "unemployment", a 156% increase in people searching on the term "bankruptcy", and 247^ increase in people looking for the term "unemployment benefits" year to year.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Mail.com operates a free web-based email service, along with content sites such as HollywoodLife and OnCars.com. Quandrangle said that Mail.com was re-launched by founder and current CEO Jay Penske in May of 2007. Daniel Rosensweig and Andrew Frey of Quadrangle will join the firm's board as part of the funding.

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and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through.

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JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. How did the company come about? Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. Thanks, and good luck!

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The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. What is Sidebar all about? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. networking.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

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.

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That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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The specific experience of the consumer is a video instruction guide, which is either on a manufacturer's web site, a retailer's website, or on a smart phone. We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem.

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JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll.

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MARCH 4, 2009

That company was sold in 2007. There are smart phone applications coming out, there are in-bound virtual telephone number service capabilities today, and there is a web gadget software solution--which I'm using now--which allows me to visually see what's going on, on a particular phone call. Mark Cromack: It's pretty substantial.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. It had originally been a web-based, flash game, so we created a fascimile in 2010 with a list of loyal users.

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John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. What is IBN Sports?

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There's a lot behind that, but it's really a matter of going out and getting the best deal content, and using the web and community to sift through all of that to put the best deal out there in front of you. Loren Bendele: We started in March of 2007. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Adam Lieber: We make a web server called Jetty, which is our centerpiece, and after twelve or thirteen years of hard work is an overnight success. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007. Obviously eBay is really successful because you have the largest inventory of product online. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them. The revenue we get from them covers all of the cost of the free calls, and more. How is the company funded?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. While Gartner, Forrester, and Jupiter--pick your choice--says that there are millions of users who want the mobile web, especially when they include China and India in their forecasts. So it's been a year.

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Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. There are ways to use radio personalities, use their web sites, streaming, custom skins, sponsorships, contest, and all kinds of things which are somewhat labor intensive, but they work. There are a few factors, in my opinion.

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I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately, I didn't know anything about computers, and thought--naively--that a Computer Science professor might know lots about computers.

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