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ReachLocal's Zorik Gordon On Daily Deals

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Earlier this week, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com), which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, announced a deal to buy daily deals site DealOn.com. So what is the strategy behind the acquisition, and how do you see this fitting into the daily deals area? We are extremely well positioned.

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Serviz Acquired By Porch

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Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand home services company founded by serial entrepreneurs Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline, has been acquired by Porch , another online marketplace for home services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Gordon and Kline previously founded ReachLocal. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Demand Media Prices IPO, Begins Trading Today

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Demand Media, which operates an online publishing business and sites such as LiveStrong and eHow, upped the pricing well above its initial offering range of $14.00 UBS Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Inc., Zogenix, Green Dot, MaxLinear and ReachLocal. Morgan Stnaley & Co.,

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. And I made the prediction that within the next 2 years RIM (the parent company of Blackberry) will not be independent. Read more: peHUB , TechCrunch industry analysis.