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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Los Angeles- and Beijing-based SPOTLITE says it has launched a new, mobile app, which lets music fans sing original music, cover, or karaoke songs to win money. Spotlite said its executives come from such companies as Google Music, Yahoo!

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JULY 28, 2015

YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook. The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. The tool runs on iOS and Android.

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MAY 3, 2018

Chung, who will be responsible for OpenX's mobile app development initiatives, was previously at AdColony, and also served at YP.com. Ho had served at Hulu and Yahoo. The company said it has named Sophia Chung as Vice President of product, Roy Firestone as Senior Director of Product, and Treven Ho as Senior Product Manager.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). washio venture capital laundry pickup smartphone mobile launder service uber' The company--think "Uber for laundry"--let users request that their dirty laundry be picked up and washed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local retailers, restaurants, and attractions. and Jamdat.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Airpush , the mobile advertising firm headed by Asher Delug, is significantly bolstering its executive ranks, saying this week that it has added Matt Shaw, former Global Head of Mobile Display at Google, as its new Chief Revenue Officer. According to Airpush, Shaw also served at AdMob, YouTube, and Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. Bart Molenda: Close5 is a mobile based app that makes it very simple to buy and sell, in particular in your area. However, classifies have not yet caught up with mobile.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! Meyers has ramping up Slickdeals , looking to leverage a site with loyal users and lots of traffic but not focus on design, and adapting it to the mobile and social generation. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online and mobile movie ticketing service which is a unit of NBCUniversal, said today that its 2012 was its "best year in company history". The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2012

A mobile app new project by a local, Los Angeles team has taken to Kickstarter to help fund its efforts to create an animated, interactive caveman for your iPhone and iPad. The team includes entertainment and tech vets who have worked on computer games from Activision, animation from Dreamworks and Disney, and who have worked at Yahoo!

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based mobile and online advertising technology developer OpenX said this morning that it has named a new head of its operations in EMEA. He also served at Yahoo. OpenX provides online and mobile ad serving and other related software. READ MORE>>. openx emea advertising managing director executive'

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the startup co-founded by Eytan Elbaz , Eytan Elbaz , Walter Driver and Ankur Bulsara, which is developing social and mobile games, said this morning that it has raised $8.5M Scopely said it is developing mobile and social applications, including the Buddies franchise of multiplayer games.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Factual said that the data adds specific neighborhood information to details on places retrieved from its database, which is used by mobile app developers, web programmers, and others to retrieve information about nearby businesses and locations. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based online and mobile advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has named Tish Whitcraft as the company''s new Chief Customer Officer. OpenX said that Whitcraft will head up OpenX''s partner services team, which includes support, sales engineering, and customer operations.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Stevens has previously served at Yahoo!, Search, and Disney, including serving as GM of local and mobile at Yahoo! Overture, InfoSpace, U.S. Tarpinian has previously served at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group and as director of advertising sales at Spot Runner.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile and desktop messaging and social media apps, is announcing this morning that it has hired Ken Rudman as its Vice President of Developer Relations. Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Citysearch.com.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Tinder announced a major addition of executives to the company, saying it has named Ferrell McDonald as Chief Marketing Officer, Maria Zhang as VP of Engineering, Derek Callow as VP International, and James Kim as VP of Finance.

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Furukawa has previously worked for Yahoo!, ZEFR said that Furukawa had most recently founded his own mobile ad company, and has 15 years of experience in the product management and technology development area. The Enthusiast Network, Kelly Blue Book, and Rubicon Project. ZEFR is venture backed by Institutional Venture Partners, U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Ad Hoc Labs is headed by Greg Cohn, who is a technology industry veteran who last worked at Yahoo; he''s been involved in a number of startups, including Away.com, where he was part of the founding team which sold that company to Orbitz. burner disposable phone number android mobile' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Fullerton-based HipGeo , the startup developer of a mobile app for tracking a user's travels, said today that the firm is now seeing posts from 125 countries and over 4,864 cities on its app. HipGeo debuted its app in September of 2011; the firm is backed by Morado Venture Partners, a seed-stage fund run by former Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We got into the pay-per-click space early on, when Idealab launched Goto.com, which eventually became Overture and was acquired by Yahoo. There have been changes in how people search, such as mobile devices. As mobile phones have become increasingly more usable, in a productive manner, we've seen more and more mobile traffic.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag--founded in 2015 by Joshua and Jonathan Viner--says its services are now available in more than 100 cities nationwide. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

HipGeo said its new app is a "complete redesign" of its platform, and is aimed at letting mobile phone users post text, places, and photos of their travels. HipGeo is backed by Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Venice, California-based Tecca , the online and mobile site providing articles, reviews, how-to articles, and other information about electronics products, said Monday that it is now reaching over one million unique visitors a month. The site says it is now the largest technology website specifically catering to women. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2011

We'll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment, distributed via online, mobile, iPad, etc. Speakers include David Beebe, Director, ABC Digital Studio; Neal Weiss, Head of Creative Development, Yahoo!

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JUNE 30, 2016

Chauhan has previously served at Adslot Technologies, OpenX Technologies, Rubicon Project, Move, and Yahoo!, The company said it has named Raj Chauhan as Chief Revenue Officer and Natalie Cariola as Vice President of Sales. and had founded online ad networks Banner Brokers and ClickAgents.

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MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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JULY 24, 2012

We reported here last week when former Google number 20 employee Marissa Mayer was appointed Yahoo CEO and said what it meant for Yahoo, Marissa Mayer and the then interim CEO Ross Levinsohn. Today we bring you what Scott Thompson is up to after he left the Yahoo! Thompson was CEO for Yahoo! Scott Thompson is back.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. MSN, or Google for the social media age." READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

The firm said that that the NetLogic partnership specifically connects voice, VoIP, IM, SMS, and integration with such applications as GoogleTalk and Yahoo! Tags: mobile android voip embedded software technologies. Messenger to Android phones. READ MORE>>.

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