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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. READ MORE>>.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. We're building a platform for music, repurposing our existing product, and already have three music client venues, and expect we can grow into a much larger market than comedy.

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

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And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. They decided early to only book very high quality vendors so they build a system that could pull in Yelp & CitySearch reviews and they set the standard that it had to be highly rated.

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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. Our is unique inventory, packaged with the best web pricing.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform.

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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. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table !

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