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JANUARY 11, 2016

Woodland Hills-based United Online announced this morning that it has named Jeff Goldtsein as a new, interim CEO for the company, replacing Howard Phansteil. He also served at strategic advisory service BGT Capital Advisors, and served at Modern Luxury Media, Experian Interactive/LowerMyBills.com, and IAC/Interactive Corp.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said Tuesday afternoon that it is acquiring New York-based DealOn.com , a provider of daily deals. ReachLocal said it would pay approximately $10M for DealOn Media LLC, which offers up local deals businesses in 18 markets across the U.S.,

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Woodland Hills-based United Online announced Thursday that it now expects its spinoff of flower delivery service FTD by October 1st. The comany also said it has expanded its mobile broadband wholesale agreements with Verizon and Sprint, which it says will significantly expand coverage of its NetZero Mobile Broadband service.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Jeremy Helfand , the President of United Online 's Media Group, has departed the Woodland Hills-based firm and ended up at a Palo Alto startup. According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO. Auditude develops technology to help companies monetize their online video.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Spotlight , the venture backed provider of software-as-a-service for managing sports and entertainment tickets, said this week that it has moved from Woodland Hills to Calabasas, in expectation of growth in its staffing. The firm--which recently raised $2.5M The firm did not say how many employees it is looking to hire. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal announced Friday that it has acquired SMB:LIVE , a developer of digital presence and reputation management products for the small and medium sized business market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

which has substantial operations in Westlake Village, Beverly Hills-based RealD , Monrovia-based Green Dot , and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal. Other recent IPOs with Southern California roots include Inphi Corp.

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JULY 22, 2010

Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp. Firms which have successfully reached the public markets include Pasadena's Green Dot , Beverly Hills-based RealD , Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , Carlsbad-based MaxLinear , and Pasadena-based Genmark Diagnostics.

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JUNE 17, 2010

So far, two companies-- Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which completed its IPO in May, and Carlsbad-based Maxlinear , which hit the markets in March, have had successful IPOs.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online disclosed on its quarterly earnings call late Wednesday that it is cutting 96 employees, as part of a move to increase efficiency and streamline operations at the firm.

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MAY 6, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its quarterly results Tuesday, saying that the firm had revenues of $263.6M The results were bolstered by strong performance at its Classmates Media business, which increased 13% year over year. Tags: united online earnings classmates media. for the quarter.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results Wednesday afternoon, saying that its communications segment--which includes its dial-up ISP business--had a revenue drop of 19 percent in Q4 compared with Q4 of 2008, dropping to $48.4M United Online's Classmates Media revenues were $60.6M

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Woodland Hills-based FatTail , a developer of software for managing online advertising for web publishers, announced today that it has launched a new, self-serve display ad selling system called PageGage Direct.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Woodland Hills-based United Online said Friday that it has promoted Robert J. Taragan has previously served at Nielsen Media Research, and Wisk at Tivo, Herbalife, and Nokia. Taragan to President of the firm's Communications segment, and named Matthew J. Wisk as President of the firm's online loyalty business, MyPoints.com.

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MAY 20, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO. The firm sold 4,166,667 shares of stock at $13.00

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449% Woodland Hills Zorik Gordon. Ashour 328 ACTIVE Network 231% San Diego Matt Landa 330 (mt) Media Temple 230% Culver City Demian Sellfors 346 MyLife.com 219% Los Angeles Jeffrey Tinsley 369 Endologix, Inc. Brown 438 Volcano Corporation 163% San Diego Scott Huennekens 445 Demand Media, Inc. Frost, Ph.D. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Currently, Los Angeles-based Demand Media , San Diego's Zogenix , City of Industry-based NewEgg , Los Angeles-based GameFly , San Diego-based Reva Medical , Westlake Village-based Inphi Corp , and Thousand Oaks-based Nexsan are among the local technology firms waiting to reach the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Basic plan: up to 200MB/data per month, free (bonus for social media activity); plans start at $9.95 NetZero (Woodland Hills) has been in the free (or cheap) Internet access business for forever. for 500Mb/month. Access device: USB modem ($24.95 with plan, $49.95 without) or hotspot device ($49.98 with plan, $99.95

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online move to diversify away from its dial-up business appears to paying off, at least in profits, as the firm reported late Wednesday that it had $68.5M Classmates Media revenues totaled $58.2M, roughly flat from last year. in income on $260.8M in revenues. for Q2, down 17% from Q2 last year.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Woodland Hills-based FatTail, a developer of online advertising management software, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a Serie A financing round led by Velocity Interactive Group. Miller and former Fox Interactive Media's Ross Levinsohn.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Woodland Hills-based Gumiyo , which develops tools for enabling mobile web sites, has scored a new customer. According to accounting and advisory firm CNM LLP, it has partnered with Gumiyo to deliver collateral, advertisements, business cards, and other media via SMS from its web sites.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm's revenues from its communications segment decreased by 17% in the fourth quarter, made up by a similar 17% increase in its Classmates Media business. The firm announced it had revenues of $256.2M

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Late last year, we had the chance to talk with Velocity Interactive's Ross Levinsohn about their investment in Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com). It was very trackable, and very measurable, and I thought that there was data you could use to drive media planning decisions.

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