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MARCH 30, 2015

Sherman Oaks-based SERVIZ , the home services marketplace founded by former ReachLocal head Zorik Gordon, has a giant new competitor as of this morning: Amazon.com. The new Amazon service is a direct competitor to SERVIZ, which also offers up access, purchase, and scheduling of home service providers. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand handyman service led by former ReachLocal head Zorik Gordon, announced today that it has raised $12.5M The company helps connect homeowners with handymen and other home services, such as plumbers, electricians, and others. in a Series B funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

Sherman Oaks-based home services marketplace SERVIZ , the startup led by former ReachLocal founder Zorik Gordon, said Thursday that it has expanded its services to San Diego. SERVIZ helps homeowners book home services on-demand, including finding plumbers, handymen, and other home service providers.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Sherman Oaks-based SERVIZ , a new, on-demand home services startup led by ReachLocal founder Zorik Gordon, said Wednesday that it is connecting consumers with holiday lighting installation services--and also revealed a funding round from Groupon. The startup said it raised $10.7M READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Sherman Oaks-based Advertise.com , the search marketing provider headed by Daniel Yomtobian, said Tuesday that it has expanded into email marketing. Advertise.com says it is also providing its services to email list owners and list managers looking to earn revenue from click throughs to advertisements. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade.

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MAY 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gorilla Nation Media , the division of Evolve Media which provides advertising representation services to websites, said this morning that it has launched a new kids, tweens, and teens vertical. The firm said the new "Youthology" vertical will help advertisers specifically engage with tweens.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Sherman Oaks-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment , operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer digital music service, has sold its Kazaa peer to peer network and brand, according to New York-based Altrinsic.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

A patent lawsuit against educational software provider Blackboard , which was spawned by the acquisition of Sherman Oaks-based NTI Group last year, has been settled, according to Texas-based TechRadium. TechRadium said the move would allow each company to continue to provide mass notification technology and services to clients.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A number of services have emerged in Southern California in the last few months, offering up free, or very inexpensive, 4G wireless connections. We've stacked up three of the services below for comparison. The service looks to be targeting the occasional or budget-minded potential 4G wireless user who shops at Walmart.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Sherman Oaks-based ABCSearch , a provider of pay-per-click advertising, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Advertise.com , and will rebrand all of its offerings under a new, Advertise.com, Inc.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

The patent lawsuit filed Wednesday,/a> against popular micro-blogging site Twitter by a Texas company, TechRadium , has echoes of a lawsuit spawned by the acquisition of Sherman Oaks-based NTI Group last year. Blackboard acquired NTI in January, and was one of the big exits for Southern California startups last year.

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JULY 27, 2009

Sherman Oaks-based Advertise.com , the search engine marketing firm run by Dan Yomtobian, disclosed today that the firm is extending its offerings into the cost-per-action (CPA) category. The firm said that the new CPA services are an extension beyond its current cost-per-click (CPC) offerings.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Music Prodigy is in Sherman Oaks. Earbits has created a service which lets you browse through over 200 stations of streaming audio, advertising free. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education. Looking for the next new sound?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian is CEO and founder of Sherman Oaks-based Scour (www.scour.com), a meta-search engine which adds social features such as voting and comments to Internet search. The way we can combat that, is by constantly adding new features and services, which give users more reasons to stick with us.

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