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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Flames in Westlake Village came within a couple of blocks of our Internet servers, but we were luckily unscathed and remained up the whole time. Those interested in continued play-by-play coverage on the fire may be interested in following a personal Twitter account created by editor/founder Benjamin Kuo here.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick said today that it has launched a new, vertical advertising network focused on the Home and Garden sector. The firm said its network includes more than 50 sites fitting the home and garden demographic. million unique visitors per month. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2010

Westlake Village-based Pragmatic Solutions , which develops data analytics software for the computer gaming market, said Monday that it has launched a new product called mygameIQ. The company also said the product is the official download management client for AOL site Big Download.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

the operator of online real estate sites Move.com and Realtor.com, said today that it has acquired Threewide Corp. Move--which has major operations in Westlake Village--said the acquisition will allow it to deliver greater value to its customers. Move, Inc. , The deal was worth $13M in cash. ListHub syndicates 2.4

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JANUARY 19, 2011

mygameIQ , the digital distribution and content management platform for gaming firms developed by Westlake Village-based Pragmatic Solutions , said today that it is in a promotion with Women In Games International.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. According to FavRav, it has launched a new social media tool targeted at small businesses, to help those businesses generate referrals from existing customers.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Investopedia.com , an online site focused on financial information and education. The deal was worth $42M in cash. Investopedia was previously owned by Forbes, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move announced today that it has appointed David Story as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Boecker as its Chief Product Officer. The operator of online real estate sites said that both Story and Boecker will be located in Northern California, at the firm's Campbell, California offices.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which provides an online system for sending electronic messages to U.S. Zumbox said that residents of those cities can go to the company's site, and enter their home or business street address to read correspondence. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is continuing his crusade against angel groups and others who charge startups to pitch their groups, saying that he's now calling on groups to stop charging fees, and post what fees they were charging to entrepreneurs on their web sites.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick announced today that its ValueClick Media and Commission Junction divisions are focusing on improving network quality, and have renewed an agreement with ad monitoring firm Cyveillance. According to the firm, the move will complement its own internal network monitoring system. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Westlake Village-based ValueClick said today that it has launched a new online advertising network, targeted at mothers and women. According to ValueClick, the new "Moms Media" vertical is the second for the firm, and will target more than 40 million women in the U.S. with children under 18, and who spent time online.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates the online real estate site Move.com, Realtor.com, and other related properties, said today that it has sold the assets and certain liabilities of its Welcome Wagon property to South Florida Media Group. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates a network of online real estate-focused web sites, said late Wednesday that it is in a joint venture with Builder Homesite focused on new home builders.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move announced today that it has appointed David Story as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Boecker as its Chief Product Officer. The operator of online real estate sites said that both Story and Boecker will be located in Northern California, at the firm's Campbell, California offices.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates a number of real estate sites, including REALTOR.com , and Move.com , announced late Wednesday that the firm's President, Lorna Borenstein, is leaving the company.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Westlake Village-based ValueClick Media announced today that the firm has rolled out a new service to allow advertisers to personalize banners ads for consumers. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Westlake Village-based ValueClick said this morning that it has launched into the health and wellness market with a new online advertising network. According to ValueClick, it has created AdRx Media, which includes more than 50 online health and wellness information sites.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Westlake Village-based ValueClick has added a trio of new publishers to the firm's health and wellness advertising network, the firm disclosed this morning. According to ValueClick, it has added eMedTV, HealthCastle.com, and Hearthstone Communications to the network. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates the Move.com, Realtor.com, and other related web sites, announced Thursday afternoon that the firm's Chief Financial Officer, Lew R. Belote, III is planning to leave the firm. According to the company, Belote will continue with the firm, until the company appoints a successor.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Westlake Village-based Pragmatic Solutions , a developer of server-side software for online computer games titles, said today that the firm is powering the deployment client for America's Army 3 , the PC action game distributed by the U.S. The deployment software helps users pre-load the game to their PCs.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007.

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JULY 7, 2010

Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. Row 44 / John Guidon / Westlake Village - Guidon sold his last firm--Comcore Semiconductor--back in 1998 to National Semiconductor, for a substantial gain. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

The division of Westlake Village-based ValueClick said that its new product will allow advertisers to segment their qualified customers, based on prior activity on the web. The solution, which is being sold as the firm's Dynamic Behavioral Targeting suite, uses prior Internet traffic to change which banners are being shown to users.

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MARCH 2, 2011

For this morning's interview, we talked with Westlake Village-based PurePhoto (www.purephoto.com), which is looking to help photographers market and sell their photographs. There are lots of online photo sites selling photos and framed prints, how are you going to be different? We're really the first to bring that together.

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