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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. The company explained that it would be integrating BuzzLabs' technology into its platform over the next three to six months.

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Privlo Raises $2.1M For Private Mortgage Marketplace

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According to Privlo said the new funding will go to expand on its recently pilot of its platform, which helps match up private lenders and mortgage borrowers. Slavin was previously a developer of real estate in the Los Angeles area, and according to the firm is a managing partner at private equity firm Napias Group. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. But more importantly Ethan developed the belief over time that consumers really needed a service that would allow them to book across many different service businesses from one convenient location.

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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. We partnered with a big management platform, integrated in our back end, and scaled out our keywords exponentially. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Product Development: philosophie. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. Yelp and CitySearch have been around for awhile, but Foursquare is really built on local businesses, Groupon, LivingSocial, and other deal sites are built on the backs of local businesses. Where do those videos get distribute?