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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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It''s also home to many other prominent technology companies, including OpenX and NewEgg. Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing.

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When Intent And Content Align, Online Ads Suck A Whole Lot Less

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When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! We believed they would create the next generation of search tools, even if none of us could specifically articulate how those innovations would ultimately manifest themselves.

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