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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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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Zao Yang, COO at BetterWorks Inc ,/ Co-Creator of Farmville. He received a B.S.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. 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.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

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Farbod Shoraka: My background is actually in mergers and acquisition advisory. The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

Tech Zulu Event

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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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.