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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

socalTECH

We did a successful trial in 2008. Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency.

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Jobscience Acquires and Closes Down Atomkeep

Tech Zulu Event

Jobscience CEO Ted Elliott said,”It has become common practice for employers and colleges to request access to social media sites and use the information to screen applicants” He added that “Job seekers need to control their social identity and validate what they are willing to share with employers.”

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

InfoChachkie

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. SaaS applicant tracking and recruiting tools also allow companies to quickly plug customized job boards into their sites. This phenomenal success led to a ravenous need to increase their headcount.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). they have purchasing intent ).*. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi!

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

socalTECH

Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. It's been fascinating to figure out how this third screen, which we call the smartphone, is going to fit into our society and world. That's how I got involved in the health site.