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AUGUST 2, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick said Tuesday afternoon that it is acquiring Dotomi , a provider of real-time, dynamic display advertising technology, in a deal worth $295M. ValueClick said the acquisition will help it meet the needs of marketers. Dotomi is base din Chicago, and has 160 employees.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Irvine-based Local Corporation , which provides online local advertising for small businesses, said Friday that it has sold off its Rovion unit to Gannett Co., Rovion was a provider of mobile advertising, and had been acquired by Local Corporation in April of 2011 for $2.3M. The deal was worth $3.9M Local Corp. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Time said the buy will help it participate in the performance advertising segment. Viant, which is led by Tim Vanderhook, was founded in 1999 as Specific Media, and acquired Myspace back in 2011. Financial details of the asset deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2012

Adconion Media Group , the online advertising network which has major operations in Los Angeles, said this morning that it has rebranded Joost Media into a its smartclip video advertising division. Smartclip, which Adconion acquired in November of last year, is a European digital video advertising provider. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. The company expects Greystripe to add $24 to $26M in revenues for the remainder of 2011. The deal was worth $70M in cash. in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

To get some perspective into ReachLocal's entry into the daily deals space and where it sees the acquisition fitting, we spoke with Zorik Gordon , CEO of the company. So what is the strategy behind the acquisition, and how do you see this fitting into the daily deals area? Zorik Gordon: We're excited about the acquisition.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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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. during the first half of 2011, and revenues of $2.4M The deal was worth $12.5M Local.com said that Screamin' Daily Deals had revenues of $4.4M

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MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. He walked me through both the logic and the math. They were effusive.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

It's my belief that many marketers still measure in layers -- they might look at how direct mail, or search, or display, or TV, or brand advertising, or their sales force performs, in a certain swim lane. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? He's been an integral advisor to us.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

in its 2011 fiscal year. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, ValueClick said the deal consists of future contingent payments based upon the performance of the business over the next four years. ValueClick said that Search123 had revenues of $31.4M READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna will speak about the future of mobile advertising, and how to maximize its potential.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. How much of FOD advertising is focused on the internet rather then more traditional channels? Funny Or Die doesn’t do any advertising. It will really depend on how Facebook manages the acquisition of the up and coming generation.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Advertise on VentureBeat. Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’ channels. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Infographics.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Thanks to our advertisers. Got A News Tip?

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to. It popularized effective platform functions. With all these things poised in Twitter’s favor…what happened?

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MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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