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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which offers up local, online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has released a chunk of software to the open source community, to help others develop cross-platform, mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

ReachLocal 164

ReachLocal Framework Woodland Hills Mobile 164

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. LA investors are more pragmatic.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. And despite what I keep hearing from others – these are not content “hit businesses&# they are “content production platforms&# that are producing scale like I’ve never seen and at a cost structure that is astounding.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313