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AUGUST 28, 2013

OpenX said the new product was designed by a team with experience from Yahoo!, The new system is aimed at filtering out automated, non-human Internet ad traffic, so that advertisers do not have to pay for impressions and clicks which are generated by software. Overture and Shopzilla. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 6, 2014

Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. The first human powered aircraft , the Gossamer Albatross, designed by Paul MacCready (founder of Monrovia-based Aerovironment).

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the provider of car shopping and auto information, reported Wednesday that it has settled a lawsuit against Humankind Design Ltd. Edmunds.com said it is also working with fifteen other review sites, including Google+, Yelp, Foursquare, Yahoo!

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JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. What is Chippmunk? That''s what we want to create.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! Meyers has ramping up Slickdeals , looking to leverage a site with loyal users and lots of traffic but not focus on design, and adapting it to the mobile and social generation. READ MORE>>.

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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?

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Irvine-based Broadcom announced Monday that the firm has been selected in a design win from LG Electronics. The LG HDTVs include connectivity to Neflix and Yahoo directly on their TV, and is being distributed through Best Buy and other retailers. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business. – the biggest Internet portals of the day.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. He told us all about what the company's trying to do. What's the story behind PurePhoto? What does that store offer?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. Set design. I’m not advocating turning off YouTube. MSN & AOL. You Must Produce Your Own Videos.

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JULY 13, 2009

The firm said that the new games, Kalorie King and Mars Lives, are the first in a series of new games designed exclusively for social networks and the iPhone. The firm also provides games for Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and others. King.com has been offering casual games through its web sites, King.com and MyGame.com, since 2004. The firm's U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Wilson has previously led venture capital firm Momentum Venture Management, and also was an executive at Yahoo/Overture Services, RiverOne, and Bowne & Co.; he has also been extensively involved in Innovate Pasadena, which is helping to bring together the Pasadena technology and design ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. If you were at a ladies online retail store don’t be surprised if you start seeing advertisements for that same store next time you’re reading the Washington Post or on Yahoo!

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Jod at the Los Angeles UX Meetup in the Yahoo! He was the guest speaker for the sold out event titled, “ Designing Beyond the Device.” Jod is the Experience Design Director at Blitz and is considered to be a visionary, known for being way ahead of his time.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

According to the firms, the new, stand-alone site will also be featured throughout the MSN network, and is designed to have the look and feel of a magazine. Braun is the former head of Yahoo's Media Group, and was also Chairman of the ABC Entertainment Group. Financial details of the link between BermanBraun and MSN were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

I had heard about someone who was quite successful in paid search arbitrage, which is a method of buying traffic and licensing a search feed from Yahoo, and was able to buy media in non-search and drive that traffic to that search advertising, making a profit on the difference. About five years ago, I got into digital advertising.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

EV Connect’s cloud-based platform has an open standard architecture that is designed to be hardware agnostic. Clients include Yahoo!, EV Connect , the Los Angeles-based company that sells software to manage electric vehicle charging, has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by investors Mitsui & Co.

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6 But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! SimpleGeo is designed with the idea that startups can create new mobile products without having to each build their own mapping functionality.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. What is Scour? We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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JULY 17, 2012

Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! ” She added,”Yahoo!’s

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AUGUST 3, 2009

He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. Jason’s cutting wit and insightful commentary made for entertaining listening on topics ranging from the Microsoft / Yahoo! My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc.

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MAY 15, 2009

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The Model S, primarily assembled at Tesla’s main plant in Fremont, California, wowed pundits and critics so much that it won 2012 Car Of The Year awards from Motor Trend, Automobile Magazine, Yahoo Motors, and more. Moto-X by Motorola: Motorola has been a mainstay in the mobile device market since the days of early flip phones.

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APRIL 8, 2014

My background, is I''ve been designing and developing accessories for the top carriers in the country, companies like Sprint and Verizon, as well as others. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. How did you guys end up working together on investments?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

UCLA’s ASM has partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, WIX, Yahoo! This weekend, February 22-24th, will be your chance to attend UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 42 hour Developers Contest, hosted at ROC in Santa Monica. The details of this event are quite amazing.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, and Schlumberger. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! They will host a Founders’ Table where attendees, including current CallFire customers, can discuss how to use CallFire, request features and functionality with the designers and engineers who built it, and learn how their bootstrapped company has grown.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Designed for those who spend their days and nights multi-tasking, this smartphone is a marathon runner. MMS, SMS, Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, Push Email, Yahoo Mail) IM (GTalk), WebKit w/ Flash. It’s the longest-lasting smartphone on the block, and at just 8.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. Connectivity.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. You don''t see the Google''s and Yahoo''s of the world on the street, interacting with customers. We also want to be able to take advantage of the security which is built into mobile platforms. We operate our site differently, here and in other markets.

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