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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Doorbell cameras built by Los Angeles-based Ring, now part of Amazon, were used in a spree of swatting attacks, where two men placed hoax calls to police departments--and used compromised, Ring cameras to taunt police.

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MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Reports from AdAge place the acquisition of Associated Content at over $100M.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media venture of Richard Rosenblatt, announced Monday afternoon that it has hired on Joanne Bradford, most recently Yahoo's SVP of U.S. Bradford reports to Rosenblatt. Tags: bradford joanne yahoo executive media demand. Bradford had also served at Spot Runner and Microsoft.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Ian Rogers , the CEO of Beats Music , is set to head up iTUnes Radio , according to a report from the WSJ Friday afternoon. Rogers is no stranger to runnning the music service of a large, public company: he was previously General Manager of Yahoo! Music, before a number of positions across the Los Angeles music startup scene.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Beats Electronics , fresh off of a big investment from The Carlyle Group , is getting set to launch its new music streaming service, according to a report Monday. READ MORE>>. beats electronics audio streaming music stream content'

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JULY 22, 2011

In the latest rumor swirling around Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu , a number of reports last night say that Apple Computer is now bidding for the firm. The report came from Bloomberg, which cited "two people with knowledge of the auction". READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media, has just been appointed CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media , the parent firm of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, and other entertainment focused properties.

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MAY 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is entertaining offers from at least five different bidders, according to a report over the weekend, including one that values Hulu at between $600M to $800M.

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JULY 1, 2011

A report Friday from the Los Angeles Times says that Google is in preliminary talks to buy Los Angeles-based Hulu. and Yahoo Inc. According to the LA Times--citing "people familiar with the situtation"--Hulu has also been shopped to Microsoft Corp.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

and across Kentucky, according to multiple reports. On Wednesday, Beyond Meat said that 66 restaurants will receive chicken products and chief executive Ethan Brown told Yahoo Finance that he expects his company to have enough capacity to potentially meet demand from all of KFC’s locations. Charlotte, N.C.,

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Ross Levinsohn , the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times --and longtime, influential veteran of Southern California's high tech industry--is under investigation by the owner of the LA Times, Tronc, after an in-depth examination of Levinsohn's conduct by NPR during his time in the high tech industry.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based online advertising marketplace operator Rubicon Project said Thursday morning that it has named David Day, who has served as interim CFO since May of last year, as its Chief Financial Officer. Day reports to Rubicon Project's founder and CEO, Frank Addante. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based online advertising exchange operator Rubicon Project announced Tuesday afternoon that it has named Michael Barrett as CEO, replacing founder and CEO Frank Addante. Barrett was most recently CEO of Millennial Media, and also had served as Chief Revenue Officer at Yahoo!, in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

A report published Sunday by Variety says that Jason Kilar , the CEO of Los Angeles-based online video site Hulu , is set to cash out as much as $100M after the site's management buyout funded by Providence Equity Partners. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom is shifting its operations from Hollywood to Glendale, the firm said this week, and has signed a 10-year lease for a new headquarters space in the Glendale City Center. The move appears to be fallout from moves last year by the City of Los Angeles to tax the firm in a higher tax bracket. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2010

According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday, NBC Universal had agreed to sell Women.com and Women.net for one million dollars to DONE!, Padnos also has served at Yahoo! but then was overruled by NBC Universal President & CEO Jeff Zucker.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). DVDs won’t die quickly – As Mark Twain would say, “ The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.&# I argued ages ago that Yahoo!

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, Watch this space.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. A few years back, I started looking at angel investing. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. Why not Los Angeles?

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), We manage nearly $1 billion.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. When you say "records your day", what do you mean?

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APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a Some Angel groups endorse it. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Eric Hovanec: Both Steve and I are angel investors. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. I left, and one thing I started doing was angel investing. It's a pretty interesting story about angel investors getting involved. That was about three years ago. So we jumped.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo ! WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships. Back to Chip.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. Let me use LA as an example. Get over it.

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MAY 5, 2011

When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. Local Angel Community / Recycled Capital.

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