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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. According to FavRav, it has launched a new social media tool targeted at small businesses, to help those businesses generate referrals from existing customers.

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MARCH 2, 2011

For this morning's interview, we talked with Westlake Village-based PurePhoto (www.purephoto.com), which is looking to help photographers market and sell their photographs. There are lots of online photo sites selling photos and framed prints, how are you going to be different? How is the company funded?

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JULY 7, 2010

Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. Row 44 / John Guidon / Westlake Village - Guidon sold his last firm--Comcore Semiconductor--back in 1998 to National Semiconductor, for a substantial gain. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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