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JULY 30, 2012

Rafat Ali , who founded and eventually sold Santa Monica-based online paidContent to Guardian News & Media, has returned from several years of travel on the road, and launched his latest startup, Skift. Ali had departed ContentNext and Los Angeles, back in 2010, to embark on what he called a "head-clearing trip of a lifetime."

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

com, has debuted his newest startup: DAR.fm , an online service which allows people to record and play back radio programs anytime they like. Billing it a "Tivo for radio", Robrtson said that the service will allow users to access recordings of radio shows from their PC, smart phone, internet radio, and video players like Roku.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results Wednesday afternoon, saying that its communications segment--which includes its dial-up ISP business--had a revenue drop of 19 percent in Q4 compared with Q4 of 2008, dropping to $48.4M United Online's Classmates Media revenues were $60.6M

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. Johnson was the founder of VirtualTourist, which he sold to Expedia in 2008. The new features follow the launch last month of "social badges" on the site, similar to Foursquare and other location-based checkin services. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The firm--formerly known as Mail.com Media Corporation--said it is selling off its Mail.com email service to United Internet Group , based in Germany. Mail.com was re-launched by Penske back in May of 2007, but since late 2008 has been buying up Internet publishing and content sites. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

It looks like the odd marriage between United Online 's communications, online content and media businesses with FTD , the company's flower delivery service, is about to end, after the company said Wednesday afternoon that its board has approved a plan to split the two into two, independent public traded companies. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

AOL said it expects to integrate aspects of Brizzly into its Lifestream product, and instant messaging service AIM. Thing Labs was foundedin June of 2008, with funding from Jones, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and Jeff Clavier. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Burbank-based CEIVA Logic , a developer of Internet-connected, digital photo frames, said this week that a Los Angeles Federal District Court has ruled that competitor Frame Media's products infringe on one of its patents, relating to its digital photo sharing system. Patent, No., 65,442,573, owned by the company. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 24, 2011

Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. How have you been growing the site and getting the word about your services? We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams. It's just grown on its own.

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JULY 1, 2009

VMIX said it is offering to migrate hosting and delivery of media to former Maven Networks customers to VMIX, without any transfer or setup fees. Yahoo said earlier this week that it would discontinue the services offered by Maven Networks, which it acquired back in February of 2008.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates the online real estate site Move.com, Realtor.com, and other related properties, said today that it has sold the assets and certain liabilities of its Welcome Wagon property to South Florida Media Group. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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MAY 19, 2009

The angel investing group said the $100M was invested in more than 150 California-based companies, and included firms in the life sciences, software, Internet, biotechnology, media, business services, and consumer products areas.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

On Demand). Invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, PlayDek, and Universal Audio.

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Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? It''s the single best.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

United Online operates NetZero and other, dial-up Internet access services. More than 57% of United Online's revenues are now coming from floral firm FTD, which United Online purchased in 2008. Classmates Media revenues totaled $58.2M, roughly flat from last year. for Q2, down 17% from Q2 last year.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion and 407 deals in 2008.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What kinds of customers are using your service? How does your service work? I have two successful exits, mostly in mobile and teh web, as well as social media. What is mobile fundraising?

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MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. What is PromoJam?

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. We do a whole host of other back-office services in that space. So, what is TaskUs?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And second, that Curate Media will be the corporate brand and organizing unit. It's an extremely valuable service, and we're paid through various commercial relationships--Google AdSense, major affiliate networks, or direct relationships with individual brands and retailers. About 1/3 of our model is around display or standard media.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Matt Kumin: When I was at Edmunds.com, we were looking at aggregation services.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable.

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APRIL 26, 2011

When you want to order something from a catering service, or order gym membership for all of your employees, or you want to go out and pick up your drycleaning or set up daycare, each relationships falls into a unique framework. in October of 2008 with the intention of coming here to explore the tech scene and have some fun.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We happened to be talking at the time with Dave Newmark, CEO of Encino-based Bid4Spots (www.bid4spots.com), about how the firm's reverse auction service for remnant radio was going, and Dave us gave his insights into Google's moves, how it affects his company, as well as an update on how things are going for Bid4Spots. Media is exploding.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. Mobile Media Ventures is part of a larger investment company, which has the core of their investing in the energy market. How is the company funded? We're really headed for three screens.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does? The firm's founders are all experienced entrepreneurs, and come from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore.

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JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. Someone who has the demonstrated ability to build a product or service, that probably has done a startup before, and is an expert in the domain. Mark Suster: I would say we were hesitant in 2008. Let's switch gears a bit.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers. OTHER DEALS. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players.". with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008.

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