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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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

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How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

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For books, mortgages, or digital cameras, you can go somewhere and put in a detailed search criteria, and find a detailed solution. Joe Kevin, our CTO, I've known for fifteen years, and worked for two years in early stage Internet companies. So, the core revenue model is online advertising. It's a problem for ad networks.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Lisa Stone.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth.