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Canon Communications Buys Pharmaceuticals Blog Pharmalot

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Los Angeles-based Canon Communications , a publisher and trade show operator serving the pharmaceutical industry, said Monday that it has acquired Pharmalot , a blog focused on news and information in the pharmaceutical industry. Tags: pharmaceutical lifescience blog publisher merger acquisition.

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BitVore Finds $4.5M For Big Data Software

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Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. The funding was led by serial entreprenur Yuri Pikover, as well as $1M from crowdfunding.

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Lunch.com Launches New Community Feature

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Johnson, has launched a new, community feature which allows third party website and blogs to host and provide communities on their own sites. The firm said the new, Lunch Network lets blogs and websites create their own, interest-based communities, which tap into the content and information from Lunch.com's website.

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Insights and Opinions: Social media: You at the Helm of Your Own New Starship

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Meanwhile, all of us get more news and information than ever, sliced, diced, pushed or aggregated by Web sites, email alerts, blogs, Facebook, Tweets and the socalTECH newsletter youre reading now. 06 percent. As a result, new media, and public relations in specific, is more alive with potential than ever in its history.

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BUZZMEDIA Ties For Brand, Influence Research

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The two said its joint research will measure various aspects of how consumers interact with brands, content, and influencers, and how consumers turn to information about brands. BUZZMEDIA operates an extensive network of music, celebrity, and other blogs and content sites. The company said it will debut the study in Q4.

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XYZ: No Banned Terms List, No Chinese Censorship

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In a open blog post , CEO Daniel Negari said that the articles, initially published in the Wall Street Journal, had "inaccurate information" regarding its accreditiation in China. Negari said that "nothing on any existing.xyz domain or future.xyz domain will be censored by the registry."

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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We make it really easy for consumers to compare information across similar retailers, and find the best deals. For a consumer, that makes it difficult to find and compare information. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results.