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BMW Targets Instagrammers With LA Auto Show Contest

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In an example of the rising interest of big advertisers in mobile social sharing site Instagram , auto maker BMW is dangling the chance to be the official BMW Instagram photographer to Instagram users who snap and post photos of local BMWs.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Interview with John Mudge, iBN Sports

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And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. It's a combination of sponsorship, advertising, and for some of our partners, fee for that content.

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Neel Grover: How Indi Is Helping People Earn Money For Their Knowledge

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If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things. We're focused a lot on the e-commerce site, because we're not a social network, and we're really a social commerce platform that connects into everyone's favorite social networks.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

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in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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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. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

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