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MAY 1, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced late Thursday that it has named two new executives. Demand said it has named Rachel Glaser as its new CFO, and Tawn Albright as its EVP of Corporate Development. and also served as COO and CFO of MyLife.com, in addition to serving at Yahoo and The Walt Disney Company.

Demand

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Luxe Valet , a new, on-demand valet parking app startup, has expanded into Los Angeles, saying that it will offer up its valet parking service to users in Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Venice. Luxe says its team comes from companies such as Groupon, Tesla, Yahoo!, a day for the service. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles

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MAY 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media saw a big switchup in its executive staff Thursday, as the company said that Joanne Bradford, the firm''s Chief Revenue & Marketing Officer, has stepped down to pursue another opportunity. Dossett also has experience at Yahoo! bradford executive revenue dossett jeff media demand' READ MORE>>.

Demand

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

Demand

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

KFC had originally launched a one-day test to gauge consumer demand at a location in Atlanta last August. The response in Atlanta continues to underscore the growing consumer demand for high-quality, delicious plant-based meats. Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat.

Yahoo

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JULY 19, 2012

The team includes entertainment and tech vets who have worked on computer games from Activision, animation from Dreamworks and Disney, and who have worked at Yahoo! and Demand Media. The team is pitching the game with an animated pitch, showing off some of its animation chops and a preview of its caveman. READ MORE>>.

Activision

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AUGUST 10, 2012

in the App Store--allows iPhone users to create disposable phone number on demand, something which could be useful handing your phone number to the guy you just met at a bar, the person on Craigslist you want to sell your couch to, or having a phone number available on your eBay listing. The app--which costs $1.99 READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. John Zimmerman, my cofounder, created the commercial API for Overture and Yahoo Search. Search Marketing. First off, what is Datapop?

Yahoo

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APRIL 5, 2010

Demand, and Eric Matza as Director of Product Marketing. Trenda was most recently VP Global Partnerships at AOL, and also served at Advertising.com, Yahoo, Overture and GoTo, among other firms. Matza was most recently VP of Product Management at Experian, and also has served at Yahoo, Q Interactive/CoolSavings, and AdForce.

Clearstone

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline.

Yahoo

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JUNE 7, 2010

compensatory damages; and attorney's fees and costs, among other demands. Padnos also has served at Yahoo! As evidence, DONE! submitted an email chain which shows the acceptance of Padnos' offer by Sedo. and University Netcasting, which became the CBS College Sports Network.

PPC

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking startup Wag has raised an enormous, $300M funding round, the company announced Tuesday morning. Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag said the funding comes from SoftBank Vision Fund.

Symantec

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s YouTube and many others. ’s HQ in Burbank. We are expecting a full house! Isn’t social networking amazing?

Social Network

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo? What's next big thing for you?

Yahoo

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! Perhaps they can spawn the next generation of innovators and leave a footprint of their DNA along the way.

Startup

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Skype, Green Dot (Tech Coast Angels get 110X return), Tesla Motors, Demand Media, Linked In, Zynga, Glam Media, Gilt Groupe and Yelp all have very disruptive business models. However (More.).

Venture Capital

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. The client demand we are seeing as we have married our analytics with Jovian's engineering is staggering. I think we'll see a dramatic escalation of demand for the software this year.

Social Media

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers.

Mahalo

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business. – the biggest Internet portals of the day. billion – not a bad result, hey?

Competition

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JULY 11, 2014

I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. The company is actually relatively new to the LA market. However, I''ve been running Internet companies and participating in the Internet business community in Los Angeles since 2002. At the same time, we thought our audience could be much larger.

Content

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. A bit off topic, but what's your opinion on the whole Microsoft/Yahoo advertising deal, and what does it mean for the industry--given that you used to run that business?

OpenX

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Tags: Social News TechZulu Law Video AOL Art Neill Bing Blogs BlogWorld BlogWorld Expo 2010 Christina Gagnier Copyright Creative Commons Demand Media Facebook Farhad Mohit FTC Guides Internet JD Lasica Lisa Borodkin Mozilla New Media Rights Startups TechZulu Live TZ Law Yahoo.

Yahoo

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. What we're starting to see, is that there is professionalism from folks like Oversee and Demand Media, who have gotten bigger by being in the monetization business.

Oversee.net

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MARCH 19, 2009

The firm said that it has commercially released its software, which helps artists generate demand from fans via direct marketing, social networking and other online channels, widgets, as well as email campaigns. The firm is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group, and its CEO is Ian Rogers, former GM of Yahoo Music.

Software

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. There''s already an existing demand, which was created by Google. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com) What is SRCH2?

Technology

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. I’m not advocating turning off YouTube. MSN & AOL. As have BigFrame and Machinima.

Company

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Ali Khoshgozaran: Tilofy comes from location and unify. Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information.

USC

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6

Social Network

Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

It's certainly already come a long way, as Etsy strike organizer Kristi Cassidy told Yahoo Finance : “It's also quite a bit for just people trying to spread a movement online with no advertising. “Every demand that we have made is very reasonable. . “Every demand that we have made is very reasonable.

Platform

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. An expanding customer base demands better support. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

Pricing

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

With Yahoo!, Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view. The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area.

Report

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. An expanding customer base demands better support. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. An expanding customer base demands better support.

Pricing

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. Their only option is an IPO.

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