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MARCH 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media venture of Richard Rosenblatt, announced Monday afternoon that it has hired on Joanne Bradford, most recently Yahoo's SVP of U.S. According to Demand, Bradford will oversee brand advertisers on the firm's top 20 owned and operated web sites. Bradford reports to Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2009

Further details on the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft have come out in a filing by Yahoo with the SEC, with Yahoo saying that Microsoft will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees, and potentially another 150 employees to help with the transition, as Microsoft takes over the search engine features of Yahoo's sites.

Yahoo

socalTECH

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.

Yahoo

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site headed by J.R. According to Johnson, the site has just launched a new Questions feature, which allows users to ask others about information; moved up the prominence of its Discussions feature; and also improved its photo embedding tool.

Sites

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

Beverly Hills

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2014

the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious , the company disclosed this morning. Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems.

Sites

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, Tags: adventurelink travel executive booking yahoo. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Wouldn’t it be nice if users could register on our site using these same mechanisms?

Google

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Tony Adam is the former Director of Online Marketing at MySpace, and also worked with Science's Peter Pham at Billshrink, at Yahoo, and more. Jones, in an interview, described EventUp as an "Airbnb for venues", a comparison to the popular service which allows people to rent out spare rooms to travelers.

Sites

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Burbank-based Walt Disney said this weekend that it has promoted John Pleasants, the former CEO of Playdom , as co-President of its Disney Interactive Media Group , along with James Pitaro, most recently of Yahoo! Pitaro will oversee Disney Online, which runs's Disney's branded web and social media sites. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

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JULY 14, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony is moving its headquarters from Pasadena to Santa Monica, according to reports from local community papers. eHarmony is reported to be moving to a space in the Yahoo! Center, taking with it 250 employees to the new location. No date for the move was given.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Docstoc is also powering similar marketplaces for sites such as Yahoo Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Inc. The effort includes both free, as well as premium documents from Docstoc. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. The site--which was co-founded by Deepak Chopra's daughter, Mallika Chopra--said it is looking to create a community of like-minded members, blogs from wellness experts, and other curated online content.

Sites

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2013

According to Porch.com--which operates an online site which helps homeowners explore and get information on remodeling projects, including peeking into their neighbor''s projects and costs--Dossett will join the company in Seattle to head up all its profit and revenue responsibilities. and Microsoft. READ MORE>>.

Demand

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based ResumeBucket , the online job search site co-founded by Josh Stomel and Ted Hekman, said this week that it has launched a new set of tools on the site. The site allows users to create their own, personal resume page and URL, and track how often those resumes are viewed by employers. READ MORE>>.

Tool

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JUNE 21, 2012

StockR looks to compete against Yahoo Finance and social stock discussion services like StockTwits. Jindal's c-founder is Brendon Crawford, who has served at : Disney/ABC, Paramount Pictures, Sun Microsystems, MySpace Music, and Chase Credit Card Systems. READ MORE>>.

Tips

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We had a blast together in December at our first #140conf LA Meetup at Yahoo! REGISTRATION SITE: [link]. 140conf LA Meetup hosted by Jeff Pulver and Eric Greenspan. Hello again! didn’t we? Thanks to Jeff Pulver for another great event. Once again, I’ll be your co-host and emcee. Our official date is May 10th, 2010.

Yahoo

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JULY 22, 2011

In the latest rumor swirling around Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu , a number of reports last night say that Apple Computer is now bidding for the firm. So far, Hulu apparently has been shopped to Yahoo, AT&T, Microsoft, and Google. The report came from Bloomberg, which cited "two people with knowledge of the auction".

Hulu

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

Pasadena-based private cloud provider Metacloud announced today that it has hired on Conner Grey, the former head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google for Southern California, as its new VP of Operations. Metacloud said Grey had been at Google for the last decade, and also has served at Yahoo!, READ MORE>>.

Google

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends.

News

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

Altadena

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MARCH 27, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock-focused, micro-messaging site headed by Howard Lindzon, has inked another distribution deal, this time with MSN Money. StockTwits is already providing its streams to Bing Finance, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, TheStreet, and other sites. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

Yahoo

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Irvine-based local search site operator Local Corporation said this morning that it has launched a new, local search site in the U.K. , version of its flagship local search site. As part of the launch, Local.com said it has inked an expanded search advertising agreement with Yahoo Inc., site as part of the deal.

Yahoo

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Jeff Dossett , the former CEO of adventure travel site AdventureLink and former SVP at Yahoo, has reportedly joined Demand Media as SVP of Content Partnership Development. According to a report from the WSJ's AllThingsD, which first reported the move, Dossett will focus on content distribution.

Demand

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

StockTwits said that the newspaper will use its Ticker Streams on a number of its pages across the site. StockTwits has been pursuing partnerships with major content sites, including Yahoo! Finance, CNN Money, Reuters.com and Bing Finance, to feature the information streams and discussions on those sites.

Yahoo

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo! a) cool site of the day (feature). In His Dorm.

Startup

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

According to SodaHead.com, the site is looking to create a forum to discuss breaking news and "hot topics" which are important to users on the site. The site--which originally started as a question-and-answer site along the lines of Yahoo Answers--said it now has a community of 2.5

News

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2013

The site did not give any financial details of its year, but did say it saw a 57 percent surge in annual ticket sales. The firm attributed growth to expanded exhibitor deals, partnerships with such sites as Yahoo Movies, AOL Moviefone and MSN Movies, and a growing mobile business. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover.

Fandango

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JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. There''s a ton of coupon and deals sites.

Internet Brands

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based FamilyFinds.com , the new daily promotions site headed by former LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a funding round, and has officially entered the online daily deal space. The funding had been uncovered by socalTECH back in October. The new funding came from Split Rock Partners.

Yahoo

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is entertaining offers from at least five different bidders, according to a report over the weekend, including one that values Hulu at between $600M to $800M.

Hulu

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. There are lots of deal sites out there--how it that different? Josh Meyers: The difference really is it''s social and community powered.

Content

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2010

HP launched the new printers at the beginning of the week, showing a new device which allows users to directly access web information sites from a touch sensitive display on the front of those printers. No other details on the new printer app from DocStoc were detailed by HP.

Fandango

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2013

eHarmony said that it ranks number one in terms of the number of marriage created by an online dating site, based on a scientific study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). eHarmony led the number of marriages for dating sites, but was closely followed by Match.com (24.34% of marriages).

eHarmony

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When Suite Arrival launches, you will be able to login to their site, choose your travel period, destination and toiletry needs and a box will show up at your hotel before you arrive. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!,

Social Network

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APRIL 4, 2011

San Diego- and New York-based StockTwits , the online social media site focused on stocks and finance, announced today that it has hired two VPs. Bullock was most recently Director of Product Development for Global Investor Relations Solutions at The NASDAQ OMX Group, Putnam was most recently Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo!

Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! sites still dominate. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. .&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. now (or ever).

Venture Capital