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Centerfield Buys Business.com and Savings.com

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Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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RapidEngage Acquired By QuestionPro

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RapidEngage was founded by Daniel Marashlian, Sean Callahan, and Rodney Rumford, who also founded photo sharing app Plixi (TweetPhoto), which had been acquired by Lockerz in 2011. RapidEngage was one of the companies incubated at EvoNexus. Co-founder Sean Callahan was one of the 2013 socalTECH 50. READ MORE>>.

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Science Inc. To Buy Social Bookmarking Site Delicious

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the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious , the company disclosed this morning. Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems.

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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. ThinkNear graduated from TechStars New York in 2011, and was part of that group's Spring 2011 class. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Idealab's GoPollGo Acquired By Yahoo

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Idealab made its investment in GoPollGo back in June of 2011, one of a series of Twitter-related investments by the startup incubator during that time frame. gopollgo idealab merger acquisition yahoo twitter feedback polling' READ MORE>>.

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Business.com Acquired By Purch

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Donnelly in 2007 by Jake Winebaum, turned over to Dex.com after the sale, and eventually shut down, but restarted after a purchase by JMI Equity and Resource Nation in 2011.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. existant) Southern California accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces.