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Yahoo Deal With Microsoft May Hit Overture

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In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations.

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The Search Agency Opens Office In San Francisco

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Search optimization and marketing firm The Search Agency , which is based in Los Angeles, said todsay that it has expanded its operations and has opened up a new San Francisco client service office.

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ReachLocal Opens UK Office

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ReachLocal, which provides services that help local businesses buy search engine advertising, said it has launched ReachLocal UK Ltd., ReachLocal's paid search ads are placed in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engine, to generate leads for local businesses.

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

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I had heard about someone who was quite successful in paid search arbitrage, which is a method of buying traffic and licensing a search feed from Yahoo, and was able to buy media in non-search and drive that traffic to that search advertising, making a profit on the difference.

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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! and Overture Services. It has developed a service akin to DataPop’s, focused primarily on dynamically increasing the relevancy of website content.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. broadcast, and much more all in a cloud based service. firm's CTO, Jamie MacLennan, directed the development of Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services, pioneering Microsoft's work in. The firm's software is now being.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Many other people over paid for Chemdex, VerticalNet, Pets.com, etc. Overture sold for $1.6