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MAY 24, 2010

Micro-messaging service Twitter said this morning that it is banning third-party advertising in its stream, taking direct aim at Los Angeles-based Twitter advertising service Ad.ly. However, Twitter's own "Promoted Tweets" feature is direct competition to TweetUp's services.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re connecting those two parties.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The buy puts ReachLocal squarely into the fast growing area of daily deals, but also potentially into competition with such companies as Groupon and LivingSocial. We're going to local merchants, getting deals, and building the DealOn network. It's an interesting opportunity to pursue, and a sourcing and network play.

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MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re connecting those two parties.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network. We're taking a different approach.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

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MAY 27, 2011

Among the local startups is Los Angeles-based ATMCASH (www.atmcash.com), a company which is looking to use the ATM machine network to change how a very old business--money remittance--works. We've only been advertising for about 90 days or so, as we have been in beta for a year making sure everything is working. What is ATMCASH?

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MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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JULY 23, 2013

There are plenty of other social networks out there, who do a good job of connecting you with your existing network of friends. There are a lot of mobile dating apps out there, and lots of competition. We are not looking at traditional advertising or subscription models at this point. That''s what Tinder really is.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. The other thing we do, is were very transparent about sharing data with them, like user data and advertising data.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. You''ll see in our advertising and in our messaging that there is lots of activity focused on the mom demographic.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Dan Yomtobian: 100 percent of our revenues come from advertisers, and from people clicking on sponsored listings.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. How are you doing things differently?

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JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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MARCH 22, 2012

After that, I went to a digital marketing for a firm which provided marketing for Sports Illustrated and other big brand advertisers like Gatorade and Nike, driving video views of social video. Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fianc's father.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Some might be looking for some liquidity, they might want to sell their app outright, or it could be they want to cut a deal on the publishing side, and get some helping out with advertising and monetization. It seem that now, versus a few years ago, it's a lot more competitive to try to get out and acquire a user profitably for an app.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important. It''s designed for business people.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media.

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JUNE 30, 2010

A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago. I was a development executive and independent producer.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX Technologies said this morning that it has launched a new product, the OpenX SSP (Supply Side Platform). openx mobile advertising auction network server' OpenX said that such customers as YP, TVGuide.com, and the New York Observer are already using the product.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform. What's your background? One example we like to use is Makeitpoppy, a new clean beauty company.

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