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Maple Media Finds $30M For Acquiring Mobile Apps

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Los Angeles-based Maple Media , a new startup led by startup veteran Clark Landry, along with Jam City veteran Michael Ritter, has raised $30M in a funding round from Shamrock Capital, the company announced this morning. READ MORE>>.

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7 Lessons On How Startups Use Social Media To Succeed

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If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Maple Media Launches App Rollup Venture, Backed By Shamrock Capital

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Los Angeles-based Maple Media , a new startup led by startup veterans Clark Landry and Michael Ritter, said late Thursday evening that it has launched a new venture which will acquire and roll up mobile apps. Ritter, who serves as CEO of Maple Media, was previously in business development at Jam City and Mindjolt.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

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Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

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TapIt Media Acquired By Phunware For $23M

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Irvine, California-based TapIt Media Group , the operator of a mobile advertising network, has been acquired by mobile apps infrastructure developer Phunware , the two firms announced Wednesday. TapIt Media was advised by Siemer & Associates in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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Building A Dream Team For Mobile Advertising, with Gradient X

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If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project). Why tackle mobile?

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J.D. Power Snags Digital Media Vet From ReachLocal

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Power, it has hired Fabien Reille as its Vice President of Digital Research, to lead efforts into research into digital media, including monitoring online, mobile and social media activity. According to J.D. Reille was most recently a Vice President at ReachLocal, and also served at ValueClick. READ MORE>>.