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MARCH 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has acquired Digital Pharmacist , a software development firm which helps pharmacists manage refill reminders and other marketing. The deal was worth $125M. Digital Pharmacist says it provides its services to over 7,500 pharmacists. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based Bardon Advisors , a cost-per-click (CPC) search and affiliate marketing firm, has been acquired by New York-based MediaTrust. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Tags: bardon advisors mediatrust merger acquisition cpcp advertising ecommerce.

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JULY 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. The total brings the amount spent on acquisitions in the first half of the year to $16.2M in Q2 of 2009.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Financial terms of the acquisition of Associated Content were not disclosed.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation provides online ad sales for branded consumer sites; Los Angeles-based AtomicOnline operates its own network of online media properties; Springboard Productions is a developer of entertainment videos; and Double Helix is a creative and interactive web marketing firm.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based online publisher Break Media said today that the firm has more than tripled its branded content projects this year, and expects that it will grow 18 percent this year, despite the economy. Break has been developing content series with advertisers, aiming at creating "viral" videos which get a lot of online viewers.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about?

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APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. CreatorUp was launched online in Beta in January of 2013 and our startup team is based in Los Angeles. When was it launched and where? Who are its founders?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , which provides web advertising optimization software, has expanded into New York, the firm announced Thursday. Rubicon Project offers helps web publishers optimize their advertising revenue, by monitoring the performance and adjusting which advertising networks get a share of a site's ad inventory.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is expanding its network of vertically focused web sites, saying Wednesday that the firm has acquired two new websites in the money and finance area, and has officially targeted "Money and Business" as one of the firm's key vertical markets. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which operates an online advertising optimization service, is announcing this morning that the firm has raised $13M more in a combination of equity and debt. According to Rubicon, the follow on funding round brings its total raised to $33M. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Technology.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. You must invest in technology.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Technology.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. They include: Sponsors.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Technology.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. They include: Sponsors.

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JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based PixelFish, which develops video advertising for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Eyespot, a provider of video hosting services for web sites. Pixelfish said the buy will help it accelerate the development of its video advertising platform.

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JULY 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Think Glendale.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Safire Partners (www.safirepartners.com).

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. They include: Sponsors.

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MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. They include: Sponsors.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. The startup was co-founded by Keith Bonnici, Omar Nicola, and Jake Moilanen, and was venture backed by TenOne Ten Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and local angels.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Tags: sponsor advertisement. Technology.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. They include: Sponsors.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. Daniel Altman: For us, it's about user acquisition, and working on the technology.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. has been a reliance on advertising revenue.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. That was back in 2000/2001. more) READ MORE>>.

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