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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Talk about the technology behind your operations here? Louis and Atlanta.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Talk about the technology behind your operations here? What''s your background and how did you end up at YP?

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SURE: Bringing The Insurance Industry Into The Digital Age, With Wayne Slavin

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The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital.

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Pinterest Marketing & Technology Firm, HelloSociety Generates $30M In Additional Sales Revenue For Its Clients

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Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. With 28 Million Users by December 2012 Pinterest commands a huge social network that’s the population of New York City, three and a half times over.

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Is Scott Thompson Back at eBay?

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since January 2012 but Daniel Loeb with a 5 percent stake in Yahoo exposed his resume flaws forcing him to step down on May 13. But 54 year old Thompson claimed his stepping down was due to thyroid cancer, which he now claims to be getting over. eBay last year bought ShopRunner owner firm GSI Commerce at $2.4 billion in 2011.

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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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Naturally, there was a stringent due diligence process, and this took a couple of months. For only $5 a month, subscribers can access brand new Nollywood movies (made in 2012), streamed in HD. The team in London is around 15 people – mostly tech, design, business development and marketing people there.

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E-commerce’s Changing Landscape | Customization

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Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). Former marketing exec of Zappos.com (who chooses to remain anonymous due to the term ‘former’), in fact, feels the opposite.