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MAY 4, 2016

Woodland Hills-based United Online said Wednesday afternoon that it has agreed to be acquired by B. The sale of United Online came after a long and tortuous path, where United Online spun off flower delivery firm FTD , sold its Classmates unit, and its StayFriends social networking site, and battled both with B. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2013

Pasadena-based OpenX Technologies , and Woodland Hills-based United Online said that the companies are in a deal, where OpenX will become the exclusive provider of digital monetization technology for display ad inventory for United Online''s Juno, NetZero, and Classmates properties. Financial details of the link were not announced.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said today that it has launched a new, beta of a local business site called Bizzy. Bizzy allows local businesses to create their own social networking "feed", and also connect with their customers via email, Twitter, and Facebook. Tags: reachlocal bizzy social networking business.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Woodland Hills-based United Online said Tuesday that it has hired an investment banker to sell its European social networking website, StayFriends.

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MARCH 2, 2009

offices in Woodland Hills, said today that it has entered into a joint venture with domain name registration giant Network Solutions. Tags: network domain name centralnic registration solutions. UK-based CentralNic , which maintains its U.S. Financial details of the joint venture were not disclosed.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has set a new, Chief Product Officer, the firm announced this morning. Nero also had served at Microsoft, heading up product development for MSN.com and MSN Network, in addition to serving at Omniture and Novell. Barton was previously at Nero, where he was Chief Operating Officer. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Woodland Hills-based United Online , has reportedly cut its staff at unit MemoryLane in Seattle, eleven months after transforming what was an online networking site into one focused on nostalgia. The report said an unspecified number of staff were cut across multiple functions at the company.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Woodland Hills-based CrowdGatehr , which operates a network of special interest message boards and forums, announced Thursday that it has named Taher Scherzay as Vice President of Technology. CrowdGather said Scherzay joins from Elexity Systems, where he was co-founder and CTO.

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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. NetZero said the deal gives its access to Sprint''s 4G LTE and 3G networks. Financial details of those deals were not announced. Financial details of those deals were not announced.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Online social networking site Classmates.com , which is a unit of Woodland Hills-based United Online , has agreed to pay $9.5M Tags: networking social lawsuit action class legal online united classmates. News of the settlement was first uncovered by TechFlash. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site. Bizzy said the site and mobile apps will be shut down by mid-November.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Woodland Hills-based United Online is launching a big push of its newly renamed Memory Lane business. The shift came as Classmates--originally focused on connecting users to old high school classmates--essentially became obsolete in a world of social networking sites. MemoryLane was, until recently, Classmates.com.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and medium sized businesses place online advertising, released its results Tuesday afternoon, reporting a net loss of $4.6M on revenues of $98.6M. The firm saw an overall, 28 percent growth in its revenues from year to year, with particular growth in international markets.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Mountain View-based business networking service LinkedIn appears to be tempting some trademark confusion--and maybe, a lawsuit-- with the launch Wednesday of a new service it bills Classmates , to help its users connect with former classmates via the service. LinkedIn's new service helps connect its users with fellow college alumni.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Bizzy , the social recommendations website and mobile apps owned by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal, has updated its iPhone app this week. The new iOS 5 compatible app adds "Guides", users who are specifically being features for their use of the service and knowledge of food, as well as new sharing features.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Classmates International , the unit of Woodland Hills-based United Online which has recently been transitioning from a service to find old classmates and associates into one focused on nostalgic memories under the name MemoryLane , has been hit by a trademark suite. The suit was filed by Memory Lane Inc.,

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Other highly ranked firms on the list were Santa Monica-based TrueCar , headed by Scott Painter and ranked at number 63, with 1,966% growth; Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , ranked at 98 with with 1,068% growth; and Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , ranked 101, with 1,038% revenue growth.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based United Online appears to be making a major shift in strategy for its Classmates.com subsidiary. According to United Online this morning, it is looking to transform Classmates from what is now a social networking company to a "premier nostalgia content center" on the Internet. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Woodland Hills-based United Online , the parent company of Internet ISP NetZero , announced this morning that it has launched a new, 4G mobile broadband service called NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. United Online said the new service will provide Internet service for laptops, iPads, and other tablet devices.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Woodland Hills-based United Online said this morning that it has acquired schoolFeed , a startup developing a Facebook app which connects people via their high school graduating class. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JULY 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based CrowdGather , which operates an online network of discussions groups and forums, said today that it is in a definitive agreement to buy the technical assets of Lefora , a firm which operates online user forums. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Woodland Hills-based United Online has named a new head of its Classmates division, the firm said this morning. United Online said it has appointed Harold Zeitz as President of Classmates, reporting to CEO Mark R.

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MARCH 8, 2011

In a twist to the popularity of mobile "check-in" applications, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal's local recommendation site Bizzy said this morning that it has launched "Check-Outs", a new feature which allows users to rate and review local businesses--after visiting those businesses.

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

Woodland Hills-based United Online, which operates the Classmates.com reunion and social networking site, appears to be cutting back staff, according to sources close to the firm. A spokesperson for the firm declined to comment on the reports.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 1193% Santa Monica Scott Painter 116 Network Solutions Provider 1001% Long Beach Phillip Walker 119 BlackLine Systems Software 973% Los Angeles Therese Tucker 131 Kotura, Inc. 449% Woodland Hills Zorik Gordon.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

All of the providers are leveraging the 4G wireless network of Clearwire, the 4G wireless firm closely linked to Sprint, and most of those firms are looking to provide very fast, 4G wireless service for lots less than typically charged by cell phone carriers for access. NetZero Wireless. for 500Mb/month. Access device: USB modem ($24.95

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APRIL 21, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has launched a new, online marketplace for local advertising, saying Monday that it has created a new "ReachLocal Xchange" platform which will allow websites to tap into local advertisers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). Shuki Lehavi , TalusLabs(Woodland Hills, mobile apps). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Earlier this week, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com), which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, announced a deal to buy daily deals site DealOn.com. We're going to local merchants, getting deals, and building the DealOn network. It's a sourcing syndication strategy.

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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). How does your solution fit with the many automated tools and ad networks out there? Your sales team can sell more inventory directly, which means less to networks.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Worked at Shearson Mortgage, Basic Four, Madge Networks, CalComp, Ingram Micro, etc. in Woodland Hills. On 04/22/08, the AeA Los Angeles Council is sponsoring " 50 NEW ideas in 50 Minutes " which will show business leaders how they can immediately improve performance within their sales & marketing departments.

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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. Obviously, we were looking at all kinds of solutions to make the process of buying and selling easier, especially in the network which we had built.

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