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Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

in the first six months of 2010. Among warrant holders of the firm's stock are Lane Armstrong and his foundation--which has lent Armstrong's backing of LiveStrong.com, the firm's health and fitness portal--Bobbi Brown; Tyra Banks--who recently started fashion site with Demand--and InfoSearch Media. on revenues of $198.45M. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Orange, California-based LogicBuy.com , an online technology deals and coupon site, has been acquired by Ziff Davis , Ziff said this morning. Ziff Davis said that LogicBuy.com had over 10 million visitors in 2010, and provides deals and coupons on technology products and services. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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JULY 11, 2011

Irvine-based Local.com , the online publisher of local business guides and advertising sites, has acquired San Juan Capistrano-based Screamin' Daily Deals , the local daily deals site. The daily deals site apparently also had grown to approximately 60 employees and 14 different markets. The deal was worth $12.5M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Westlake Village-based BizDeals.com , an online site offering up weekly deals for small businesses, has been acquired by Concord, Mass.-based BizDeals.com was founded in 2010 by Mark Reese. based RapidBuyr , RapidBuyr said Tuesday. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the publisher of entertainment related blogs and websites, said Friday that it has acquired The Frisky , an entertainment news, celebrity, and fashion site, from Turner Broadcasting Systems. BUZZMEDIA said The Frisky had more than 2 million average monthly readers in 2010, based on comScore numbers.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

CinemaNow was acquired by Rovi in late 2010 for $720M from Sonic Solutions, which acquired CinemaNow in 2008. That model was turned on its head by the emergence of sites like Hulu, YouTube, and many other free (or mostly free) video. Rovi said the move comes as part of an effort to focus on growth opportunities in its core business.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based HauteLook , the flash sales site run by Adam Bernhard, has been acquired by Nordstrom for up to $270M. HauteLook was venture backed by Insight Venture Partners, which just invested $31M in the company in June of 2010. Nordstrom said the buy will enable it to participate in the fast-growing private sale marketplace.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of sports registration and online community sites, said in a filing today that it had a net loss of $10.9M Revenues were up 15% from the quarter ending March 30, 2010, when the firm reported a net loss of $12.4M on revenues of $72.71M for the three months ended March 31, 2011.

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Active Network operates a network of online sports registration, community activity and group sites, and other related Internet services. for the nine months ended September 30, 2010.w The firm is venture backed by ESPN, Canaan partners, ABS Ventures, as well as others. The firm said it had a net loss of 37.8M on revenues of $242.8M

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MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MAY 18, 2012

As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. Despite the huge interest in Facebook's IPO--the firm priced at $38.00

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Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. ContentNext founder Rafat Ali left the firm in May of 2010. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. million pageviews. READ MORE>>.

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We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. Neel Grover: We've been transforming the site and experience quite a bit.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

CinemaNow was acquired by Rovi in late 2010 for $720M from Sonic Solutions, which acquired CinemaNow in 2008. That model was turned on its head by the emergence of sites like Hulu, YouTube, and many other free (or mostly free) video. Rovi said the move comes as part of an effort to focus on growth opportunities in its core business.

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Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start?

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MARCH 20, 2007

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. but: Something is Still Missing.

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If you want to download the document I’ve made it available at my favorite document sharing site DocStoc). Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) with only 19% saying they would decrease levels.

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After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Scangos, the former head of Exelixis (NASDAQ: EXEL ), was named Biogen’s CEO in 2010 during a rocky time.

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MARCH 20, 2007

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. $14mm in Series C; $25mm in Series B raised in March 2010; $44mm raised in total. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. It seems like M&A ebbs and flows through periods of rapid acquisition followed by years of divestitures. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). AppDynamics.

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