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JANUARY 6, 2014

Woodland Hills-based United Online , which runs the Classmates, StayFriends, MyPoints, NetZero, and Juno services, said late Friday that it has named Gale Shulman as its new Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Shulman had most recently been General Counsel at MIPS Technologies.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

DealOn , the developer of white label group buying software which was acquired by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , has just been sued over patent infringement by group buying site Tippr. According to a court filing, KashLess, Inc., the parent firm of Tippr, has sued both DealOn LLC and BuyWithMe, Inc.,

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides online marketing services for local businesses, is further expanding the breadth of its business today, saying it has launched a new back-end office operations management product. READ MORE>>. reachlocal internet search marketing back office operations software'

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MAY 6, 2015

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the publicly held, online marketing provider for small and local businesses, said Tuesday that it has raised $25M in a term loan. The funding came from Herculus Technology Growth Capital, and comes as the company reported sharper losses and a significant dropoff in revenues.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Woodland Hills-based BlackLine Software , the developer of accounting and financial close software, has priced its IPO, saying late Thursday evening that it will sell 8,600,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 BlackLine is at least the sixth major technology IPO in Southern California in the twelve months. earlier this week.

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JULY 1, 2013

Financial software provider Intuit has sold its Intuit Financial Services business--which is based in Woodland Hills--to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Intuit announced the deal on Monday, saying the cash transaction is worth approximately $1.025 billion.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

The firm said it expanded its Information Technology department by more than 20 percent, and has taken on an additional 10,000 square foot of office space in Woodland Hills to handle that expansion. The company said it now has more than 100 employees. Music Reports is backed by ABRY Partners.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? -The

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the firm which helps small and medium sized businesses place online advertising, said today that it has approved a $20M, share repurchase program. The publicly traded firm said that the effort reflects the "continued confidence" of its board and management in the strength of its business.

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JULY 9, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, said today that it is expanding internationally, with a deal for a Central and Eastern European franchise. Peter Wiedemann, the former CEO of Ataxo, and covers Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal is looking to make search retargeting -- the targeting of consumers based on their prior Internet history -- available to the SMB market this morning, with the launch of a new product. ReachLocal said the new retargeting product is now available in the US and Canada. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Woodland Hills-based United Online has named a new head of its Classmates division, the firm said this morning. Zeitz was most recently at International Game Technology (IGT), and also has served at Realnetworks, serving as COO of that firm's Games Division.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Woodland Hills-based CrowdGatehr , which operates a network of special interest message boards and forums, announced Thursday that it has named Taher Scherzay as Vice President of Technology. CrowdGather said Scherzay joins from Elexity Systems, where he was co-founder and CTO.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Woodland Hills-based MetaDolce Technologies, a developer software for web search, said Thursday that it has launched a new product which will allow web sites to accept "natural language" queries for visitors.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Jeremy Helfand , the President of United Online 's Media Group, has departed the Woodland Hills-based firm and ended up at a Palo Alto startup. Auditude develops technology to help companies monetize their online video. According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the provider of local online marketing services for small and medium sized businesses, reported its results Tuesday, saying that it had $77.1M ReachLocal hit the markets in May, and most recently was ranked the fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Fast 500. in revenues.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides online marketing products for small- and medium-sized businesses, reported today that it has named Jeff Hagins as Chief Technology Officer, and promoted Steven Power, former Australia CEO, to Executive Vice President of Global Sales Operations.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Deloitte & Touche announced its national Fast 500 winners today, the firm's annual list of fastest growing technology firms in the nation. Tags: competition ranking firms technology growing fast deloitte.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

which has most of its employees in Westlake Village; Los Angeles-based Gamefly ; City of Industry-based NewEgg ; San Diego-based Fallbrook Technologies ; and Thousand Oaks-basd Nexsan. Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp.

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JULY 22, 2010

Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday.

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JULY 16, 2010

RealD joins Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal and Carlsbad-based MaxLinear among the list of local firms with a successful IPO this year. RealD said last night that it had priced its IPO at $16.00, and is selling 12.5M shares of its common stock.

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JUNE 17, 2010

So far, two companies-- Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which completed its IPO in May, and Carlsbad-based Maxlinear , which hit the markets in March, have had successful IPOs.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

A number of Southern California technology firms have nabbed top spots in the annual Inc. Beyond the first 100 companies, medical imaging firm Dicom Solutions in Irvine was at 109; Agoura Hills-based SEO provider National Positions at 112; Blackline Systems in Calabasas was at number 113, and at number 134, Irvine-based Vizio.

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MAY 20, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which helps small and local businesses place Internet advertising, was up 15.2 percent after its IPO Thursday, closing at $14.98, up $1.98. The firm sold 4,166,667 shares of stock at $13.00 per share, after pricing below its initial offering range on Wednesday evening, and had traded as high as $15.26

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APRIL 21, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has launched a new, online marketplace for local advertising, saying Monday that it has created a new "ReachLocal Xchange" platform which will allow websites to tap into local advertisers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The move is an interesting one, given the number of Southern California technology companies trying to go the other direction, and to hit the public markets.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Woodland Hills-based Gumiyo, which develops mobile marketing technology, said today that it has launched an effort with the Los Angeles Times to market classifieds, online automotive, and real estate advertising via mobile phones.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Earlier this week, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com), which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, announced a deal to buy daily deals site DealOn.com. They have the technology suite, which helps us to connect to those partners.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently. I moved out here seven or eight years ago because the technology environment here is very robust. There are all sorts of ways to find buyers, based on their digital footprint.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

However, the Woodland Hills-based firm isn't satisfied with stopping there--it now wants to own the entire transaction--from finding a local service provider, to booking an appointment with that provider, to presenting estimates, invoices, and collecting payments, and has launched a whole set of products in that area yesterday.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Late last year, we had the chance to talk with Velocity Interactive's Ross Levinsohn about their investment in Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com). We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. What is it a sales person can do now with your new product that they couldn't do before?

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace.

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