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Local.com Drops LEC Billing Acquisitions

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The company also explained it will make its platform available to yellow pages and regional media publishers. Local.com claimed the switch came after success of its OCTANE360 platform, however, LEC billing companies have also been facing scrutiny from the FTC and others for billing users for services they did not want or did not want.

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

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For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform.

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

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. 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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When Intent And Content Align, Online Ads Suck A Whole Lot Less

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Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. This latest wave in this transformation has been enabled by a number of sophisticated technology companies, including: Burstly , Coull , Collider Media , GraphEffect , SteelHouse , RingRevenue , GumGum , and DataPop.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. The company handles all the infrastructure required for text messaging, voice. The company's software is being included in the Linux.

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

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However, it most likely still won’t provide revenue or a return on ad spend seen in traditional direct response channels, such as paid search. Greathouse : If you woke up and were suddenly the CEO of Pinterest, what changes would you initiate to make it a more effective marketing platform?

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. funding led by Level Equity.

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