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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm. Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo!

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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. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the developer of music and band marketing software headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said over the weekend that it has added Andrew Mains as its new VP Artist Relations and Services. The firm said that Mains will help artists find their way to the firm's platform. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2012

He also was previously Executive Director at AT&T Interactive, and also was Director of Engineering at Yahoo Search Marketing. Oversee said that Chuang will be responsible for identifying and building technology platforms for the company. Chuang was most recently Director of Engineering at online college textbook firm Chegg.

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APRIL 19, 2011

The funding comes from Morado Venture Partners, a seed stage fund run by ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez. HipGeo develops a location-aware platform which includes smartphone apps which enable users to continuously record and organize their lives around geography.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Topspin said its new discounted accounts make it easier for labels, marketers, and other companies to get their clients on board its platform. Topspin is headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, and backed by Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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MARCH 11, 2014

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! Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Rudman joins the company from AT&T Interactive, where he was Director of the Developer Program and Platform. Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Citysearch.com. UberMedia develops a suite of Twitter messaging apps such as UberSocial and Echofon. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Resources Here are some related articles: The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect Update once to share with many on Yahoo! Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Example What do I mean?

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JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline. ows are lower.

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MARCH 8, 2011

OpenX said that Chauhan will be responsible for increasing adoption of its OpenX Enterprise and OpenX Market ad exchange platform. Chauhan comes from the Rubicon Project, and was co-founder of ad networks Banner Brokers and ClickAgents. He also has served at Move, Inc.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Vizio said that both video services will be available on its VIZIO Internet Apps (VIA) Connected CE platform, available on its LCD HDTV and select Blu-ray players. VIZIO already offers up access to Amazon Video On Demand, Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, and such services as Facebook and Yahoo Fantasy Football on its connected TV line.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

According to Metacloud, its new Metacloud Hosted Private Cloud service will provide private cloud services to companies, giving them access to an OpenStack-based cloud platform and expert support. MetaCloud had previously only provided its services via an on-premise offering, helping companies to manage their own OpenStack deployment.

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MARCH 15, 2012

The new project taps Topspin's marketing platform, to provide artists with pages on MTV with ways to connect with fans, and allows fans to buy music, merchandise, and tickets. Topspin, which is led by Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

CapLinked operates an online platform which lets users manage capital raises, commercial real estate deals, business development transactions, and more, operating as a "virtual data room". Sroka has previously served at such companies as Industrial Logic (serving clients such as HP, Yahoo, and Schlumberger ) and BigVisible.

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Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. Most of that digital media is display, and we have a platform which automates a lot of the optimization decisions, based on a strategy we''ve developed collectively as a media team. The better the platform gets, the more we are able to scale, with less labor.

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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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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The company said Palmer also spend nearly a decade at Yahoo! MarketCast provides studios, entertainment platforms, sports, and lifestyle brands with research and analytics services. Palmer was previously at NBCUniversal, on NBC's Content Distribution Digital Products team. previously.

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JUNE 18, 2012

Mitgang was previously CEO of Veoh, and also had served at Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s s advertising products, platforms, and services. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems said Monday that it has named Steve Mitgang as its new CEO.

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APRIL 14, 2011

It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. We also added a few more features which were very stock friendly.

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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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JULY 1, 2010

-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s. Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. It’s core platform stuff. Other Deals.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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MAY 14, 2012

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! Fast-forward two years – DataPop has not just radically transformed search; its creative optimization platform is now matching all modalities of online ads to consumers’ intent.

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MAY 20, 2009

According to comScore, which analyzes Internet traffic and e-commerce statistics, ValueClick is now number five, and Specific Media number six, in the top online ad networks--just behind Platform-A, Yahoo, and Google.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

The massive geographic footprint of the region has always been a limiting factor in our work as a Super Connector, but we soon realized that virtual platforms actually allow us to more effectively bring people together than solely relying on live in-person convenings. He previously held C-level roles at Overture Services/Yahoo!,

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis, the CEO and co-founder of the firm, is the former COO and CMO of NextMedium, was a VP at ValueClick, and has also served at Fastclick, Yahoo/Overture, and Earthlink, among other firms. He told us all about what the company's trying to do. What's the story behind PurePhoto? What's your background and how did you get into this?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. We’re the underlying platform that enables the calls to be tracked like clicks while weeding out fraud. The longer term is even more promising.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports. The social platform is very family friendly, and provides all of the front end functions for parents and kids involved in Little League, Pop Warner, or whatever group activity that keeps a family busy. How did WePlay come about?

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services.

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MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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