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Userplane Extends Chat App

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Santa Monica-based Userplan has extended the firm's chat applications, saying Tuesday that the firm will connect users of its chat application across different web sites, regardless of where they are on the web. The developer of web widgets said that the cross-platform chat is available on any social networking with an open API.

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Userplane: We're Not Dead Yet

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Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. Tags: userplane deadpool widget software. READ MORE>>.

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MySpace Names Jones, Hirschhorn To Exec Team

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Jones is best known in Southern California's technology community for his success at Userplane, which he founded and sold to AOL. He was most recently CEO of Tsavo Media, which is developing online publishing and advertising technology along with related online content. Both are in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Mike Jones Echoes Hollywood | If You Build It, They Will Come

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He’s had multiple exits and also advises private startups (his company Userplane sold to AOL for nearly $40 million and Tsavo Media drew a cool $75 million from Cyberplex ). Mike Jones may be known for his most recent role as CEO of MySpace , but this Internet entrepreneur is no stranger to the startup world.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Coinbase has developed a seamless platform for secure cryptocurrency transactions and has over 10 million users with more than $50 billion in digital currency already  with so many users, you know they can't be wrong. Coinbase, the online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

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Tsavo Snags Percival From Docstoc

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Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the online media startup headed by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said today that it has hired on Sean Percival as Director of Content at the firm. Percival has previously served at Trading Places International and Nova Development. READ MORE>>

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Tsavo Launches Search Engine Marketing Arm

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Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the new startup founded by Userplane founder Michael Jones, has launched a new division, focused on search engine marketing. The firm announced the division Tuesday afternoon, saying that its new Tsavo Agency will provide search engine marketing and content monetization services for companies. READ MORE>>

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