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WhatRunsWhere Targets Ads On Android

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According to the startup, it lets advertisers figure out what specific ads are running, who is selling ads, and other information on competitors, to help them figure out their own mobile ad campaigns. The firm said the mobile products come thanks to its August 2012 acquisition of mobile ad measurement startup Mobile Ad Spy.

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Western Digital Gets Nod To Integrate HGST, Other China Subsidiaries

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Western Digital had acquired HGST back in March of 2012, but as a condition of approving the acquisition, China had essentially handcuffed the company's involvement in day to day operations in HGST. HGST makes heads for the disk drive industry, used for picking up the information on spinning hard disk platters. READ MORE>>.

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Report: Snapchat Looking To Raise $4 Billion In IPO

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The report cites "people familiar with the matter" for the information. The latest IPO big tech IPO of that size was for Facebook, which raised $16 billion in its IPO back in 2012. Snapchat is in the midst of an IPO effort being led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group. Snapchat recently changed its corporate name to Snap, Inc.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

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Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. You have to make sure your cost of acquisition, retention rates, and conversion metrics are all in place. We're riding that wave, and really changing how things are done. So where are you now? You cannot grow your problems.

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When A Startup Chooses IPO Most Founders Are Out

Startup Professionals Musings

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Disclosures of information. With public shareholders and high liability risks, every public company must disclose and answer to shareholders and the press on all material information regarding the company, its operations, and its management.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. It was too head of its time.

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