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Demand Media Buys Saatchi Art, Appoints Sean Moriarty As CEO

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He also has served at IAC/Citysearch, prior to headin gup Ticketmaster. demand media saatchi sean moriarty executive merger acquisition' Moriarty is an active advisor in the Los Angeles technology startup community, and serves on the board of Eventbrite, Metacloud, and TuneIn. READ MORE>>.

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BlackLine Systems Names New CTO

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Avakian joins the company from Rent.com, where he had been for thirteen years; he had been one of the first employees of Rent.com, having been at the company both through its acquisition by eBay and its acquisition by TPG/RentPath. READ MORE>>. blackline systems executive rentcom accounting software close financial alain avakian'

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OpenX Names Idealab's McPherson As Chief Legal Officer

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OpenX said that McPherson will oversee its worldwide legal affairs, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and intellectual property efforts.

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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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CityGrid Buys Pay-Per-Phone Advertising Technology Firm

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid , the unit of IAC which operates CitySearch, Insider Pages, and Urbanspoon, said this morning that it has acquired Felix , a performance-based, local advertising service for small and medium-sized businesses. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep! He had had a good run as CEO of RedBeacon but aspired to work on his next project.

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