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APRIL 12, 2010

Online web portal Yahoo has inked a deal with Reveille , producer of The Office, Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser, and other shows, for a new online series, the firms said today. According to Yahoo, the new original web series, Who Knew? The new web series is being sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales USA.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Our interview today is with Amos Schwartzfarb , the author of Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups , which comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TrueCar--which offers up automotive pricing information and automotive configuration and quoting software--said the sales came from more than 5,500 dealer partners. The firm's back end software is used to power the no-hassle, automobile purchasing programs from American Express, Yahoo Autos, AAA, USAA and Consumer Reports, among others.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online music blog publisher and pop culture publishing firm which owns Celebuzz, Idolator, Stereogum, and other sites, is continuing a hiring roll today, saying it has named Michael Ziegler as Senior Vice President, Sales. BUZZMEDIA said Ziegler will head up sales efforts in the Midwest and Eastern areas.

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JULY 29, 2009

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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DECEMBER 14, 2018

FastPay said that Wehner joins from The Rubicon Project, where he was Senior Vice President of Agency & Brand Sales. He also has served at Microsoft, IBM, and Yahoo, and has more than 20 years of sales and business development experience in the digital media area. FastPay says that Wehner will be based in New York City.

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MAY 5, 2010

According to the firm, it has named Aisling McDonagh as Senior Sales Director, Todd Dufour as Head of Influencer Marketing & Talent Relations, and Judith Heimowitz and Mary Michael Marlo as Directors of Integrated Marketing. McDonagh joins from Prevention Magazine at Rodale, and has also worked at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

Irvine-based Specific Media, which operates an online advertising network, said Monday that it has hired four for the firm's sales and client relations teams. According to Specific Media, it has hired Kathy Benigo, Jolene Ortiz, Ray Duncan, and Matthew Donner for the firm's sales team. Benigo joins from Disney Online, Ortiz from Yahoo!,

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. I know I didn’t.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag--founded in 2015 by Joshua and Jonathan Viner--says its services are now available in more than 100 cities nationwide. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 3, 2017

She also has served at Yahoo, AOL, Sharecare, and Everyday Health, along with working as a news anchor and reporter at CBS and ABC affiliates in South Carolina and New York. Independa said Willey will head up strategy, marketing, sales and partnerships for the company. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

On Wednesday, Beyond Meat said that 66 restaurants will receive chicken products and chief executive Ethan Brown told Yahoo Finance that he expects his company to have enough capacity to potentially meet demand from all of KFC’s locations. Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat.

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MARCH 8, 2012

According to the startup, it has added former Facebook sales director Rob Lissner as Special Advisor to the CEO, to help shape the firm's product and sales strategy. MomentFeed said that Lissner will help in product development, recruiting, and building a sales team; Lissner has also joined the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2016

The company said it has named Raj Chauhan as Chief Revenue Officer and Natalie Cariola as Vice President of Sales. Chauhan has previously served at Adslot Technologies, OpenX Technologies, Rubicon Project, Move, and Yahoo!, and had founded online ad networks Banner Brokers and ClickAgents.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

According to Airpush, Shaw also served at AdMob, YouTube, and Yahoo! airpush chief revenue officer google executive sales' Airpush offers up mobile advertising and targeting technology, aimed at mobile apps. The company said it now has approximately 230 employees. Shaw will head up driving global advertising revenue for Airpush.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. The site did not give any financial details of its year, but did say it saw a 57 percent surge in annual ticket sales. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , the provider of local search advertising services for small businesses, said this morning that it has named Geoff Stevens as its Executive Vice President and General Manager of GLobal Business Development, and Natalie Tarpinian as its Vice President of its National Sales Division. Overture, InfoSpace, U.S.

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APRIL 11, 2022

on each sale. And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. Physical Product Sales. Digital Product Sales. Service Sales. million in revenue and added 10 million active buyers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

ShipWorks develops shipping software, which is used by online sellers to manage shipping and sales on such marketplaces as eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and elsewhere. Stamps.com said that ShipWorks will operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of the company. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

TaskUs said it has named Balaji Sekar as its new Chief Financial Officer, Christopher McLaughline-Brooks as Chief Information Officer, and Lital Gilad-Shaoulian as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. McLaughlin-Brooks was at YapStone, and also served at Parallels, Business Objects and Yahoo!

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AUGUST 21, 2015

According to Ranker, it has named Inger Lund Carter--formerly Yahoo! Front Page Editorial Director--as its Vice President, Content and Programming, and named David Cohn--formerly of Askmen and Crave Online--as Executive Vice President, Sales. Cohn will be based in New York, at a new office for the company.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Padnos also has served at Yahoo! Padnos was the founder of Better PPC , a pay-per-click technology firm which helped small and medium sized businesses manage, optimize, and report on their PPC campaigns; Padnos sold BetterPPC in September of 2008 to Tsavo, the content startup headed by now-MySpace co-President Michael Jones.

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JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. It's a marketing experience.

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APRIL 6, 2011

ReachLocal said it will train SureFire's dedicated sales force to sell its products and services. ReachLocal helps small and medium sized busineses place pay-per-click ads on Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as other websites. Business details of the alliance were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 28, 2014

Whitcraft was most recently Chief Customer Officer at Tagged, and also was an executive at MySpace/Fox Interactive Media, in addition to serving as an executive at Yahoo. OpenX said that Whitcraft will head up OpenX''s partner services team, which includes support, sales engineering, and customer operations.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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 DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo! Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo.

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APRIL 18, 2012

The company said the new office will help support its Bay Area client base, plus provide it with local access to agency representatives at Google and Yahoo. The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

DataCert , a provider of enterprise legal management software and services, said today that it has opened up a new office in the Yahoo! Center in Los Angeles, with plans to build out a team providing product management, sales, and engineering in the location.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. Do you hire more sales people? As CEO, do you step in? Engineering?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! That allows marketers to drive a significant increase in sales, and a reduction in cost on the back end. We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. Search Marketing. First off, what is Datapop?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Daum has also served at Overture Services/Yahoo, and also was at American Express. TrueCar offers up both new and used car pricing data, based on actual car dealership sales, to both consumers and dealers. Daum joins TrueCar from Automoti.com, where he was Chief Operating Officer. Automoti.com was sold to Hertz in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Carlsson joins from IBM Global Services, and Tomomatsu joins from Yahoo! MarketShare helps marketers monitor what kind of impact their marketing efforts have on their sales and profits. MarketShare said it appointed Jeanette Carlsson as EVP and Managing Director EMEA, and Shigeyuki Tomomatsu as EVP and Managing Director Japan.

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JUNE 21, 2012

SocialVibe said it has named John Capano as CO, Brett Lofgren as CRO, and Bob Lonigro as its VP of Sales. Lofgren was previously at Epic Media Group, and also served at Epic Adveritsing, Yahoo!, and other firms.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Jackson--said it has added a new address book feature, importing of contacts, as well as support for asset sales. CapLinked said the new address feature makes sharing deals on the service easier, and also allows users to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Altadena-based AdventureLink , an operator of an online marketplace for adventure travel, is being sold in a foreclosure sale today, after being foreclosed upon by its lenders, according to a public notice published by its lenders. READ MORE>>.

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