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Citysearch Invests In OrangeSoda, Launches Online Local Advertising Service

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West Hollywood-based Citysearch , the online local business guide owned by IAC, announced today that it has launched a new online advertising service for local businesses called CityGrid Complete. According to Citysearch, it made an investment in OrangeSoda to build the new service. READ MORE>>.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. 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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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. When I first came on board, we were not very sophisticated with our search engine marketing. Have of all our transactions are from repeat buyers.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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Places are rated pretty well--you've got Yelp taking care of that, CitySearch, and other sites doing that really well. We're hoping to create a content rediscovery tool, which helps readers discovery yesterday's content and drive more advertising to publishers as a result of people finding that older, forgotten content.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

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After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. When Three Day Rule was started, was it marketed towards women only or has it always been towards men & women? It was Citysearch for women to find guys. Talia, tell me a little about yourself. Entertainment. While at E!,