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Mahalo Retools As Educational Content Apps Provider

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Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? Mahalo had initially focused on creating a human-curated search engine, but had seen some stumbles after major Google algorithm changes last year which caused a dropoff in the firm's search engine traffic.

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Calacanis: Yahoo Should Buy Mahalo For $150M

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How much is Santa Monica-based Mahalo worth? In a list of 10 acquisitions he suggested Yahoo make "on day one", Calacanis--not one to shy from self promotion--said that Yahoo could acquire Mahalo for $75M to $150M, with a chance of closing a deal at greater than 50%. According to Jason Calacanis , in a blog post, $75M to $150M.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , Tyler Crowley – Mahalo Tyler Crowley is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Mahalo and Producer of Open Angel Forum (OAF). Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm. Competitors: Knewton.