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JULY 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , an online site focused on a combination of news discussion and questions and answers, announced today that the firm has connected the site to Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Tags: sodahead twitter facebook yahoo software integration news. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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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>>.

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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.

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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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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.

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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>>.

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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>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Huntington beach-based SurflineWavetrak , the parent company of Surfline , the go-to site for surfing forecasts and information, has raised $30M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from private equity investor TCG. As part of the funding, the company said it has appointed Kyle Laughlin as CEO of the company.

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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.

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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>>.

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MAY 4, 2015

Goldberg had also served as President of Yahoo Music in Los Angeles. Yahoo acquireed Launch Media back in 2001, eventually renaming the site to become Yahoo Music. Goldberg had been serving as CEO of SurveyMonkey in Silicon Valley, and was married to Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Slickdeals , the online coupon and deal site led by Josh Meyers, has tapped two technology veterans for its board. Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! Prior to Twitter, Hubbard was CEO of Live Nation Ticketing, and was CEO of Musictoday.

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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.

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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.

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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>>.

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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>>.

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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.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based crowdsourced ranking site Ranker announced Friday that it has opened up a new video division, Ranker Video , as well as added a few key hires at the company. According to Ranker, it has named Inger Lund Carter--formerly Yahoo!

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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.

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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>>.

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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.

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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".

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AUGUST 28, 2013

which Edmunds.com said had created nearly 2,200 fake member accounts on the site to try to change dealer ratings and reviews. Edmunds.com said it is also working with fifteen other review sites, including Google+, Yelp, Foursquare, Yahoo!

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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.

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JULY 28, 2015

YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook. The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. The tool runs on iOS and Android.

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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.

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JULY 31, 2012

San Diego-based Stocktwits , the online, finance focused micro-messaging site run by Howard Lindzon, has a problem: Twitter just made stock tickers on the site clickable, replicating a major feature of Stocktwits. Twitter announced the feature this morning on its stream. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Furukawa has previously worked for Yahoo!, The company's software and services helps content owners identify their content on such sites as YouTube, in order for them to monetize or control the usage of that content. The Enthusiast Network, Kelly Blue Book, and Rubicon Project. READ MORE>>.

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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>>.

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The company provides and manages 1,000 electric vehicle charging sites through its EV Connect network. Clients include Yahoo!, EV Connect has a smartphone app to give drivers of electric vehicles real-time access to charging station status. Its also sells a cloud-based software platform that businesses can customize.

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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).

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AUGUST 20, 2012

A report published Sunday by Variety says that Jason Kilar , the CEO of Los Angeles-based online video site Hulu , is set to cash out as much as $100M after the site's management buyout funded by Providence Equity Partners. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Venice, California-based Tecca , the online and mobile site providing articles, reviews, how-to articles, and other information about electronics products, said Monday that it is now reaching over one million unique visitors a month. The site says it is now the largest technology website specifically catering to women.

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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.

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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.

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