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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad.

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The Search Agency Opens Office In San Francisco

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The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients. The firm is backed by private equity firm JMI Equity.

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ValueClick Sells Search123

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Westlake Village-based ValueClick has divested Search213 , the company's European, self-service, paid search business, the company said today. In explaining the sale, ValueClick said that Search123 has been "a small business" for the company and does not fit with its long-term strategy. in its 2011 fiscal year. READ MORE>>.

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Convertro Launches New Product

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The firm gave the example of a Pinterest "pin" of a Christmas card, and its tracking that found that a retailer received 6,815 visits and 65 direct sales due to that one "pin". Convertro is trying to better track conversions and visitors, and attribute those to different online advertising and outreach.

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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content.

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Yahoo Deal With Microsoft May Hit Overture

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Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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There are hundreds and thousands of representation of companies on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yelp, in paid search and through social experiences. The second area, is that while we've grown pretty rapidly, we've grown the headcount in sales and marketing very slowly.

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