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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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MARCH 26, 2015

A new, Los Angeles startup, urRadio --created by former Yahoo! urRadio''s new service runs on iOS, Android, and the web. urradio music streaming radio station startup yahoo' Ever wish you could be the DJ of your own radio station? READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Beats Music , the streaming music service which is being developed by Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, officially launched this morning on the web and via an iPhone application. Beats Electronics is being run by Ian Rogers , the former head of Topspin Media and GM of Yahoo! The service, which costs $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

TNW, citing Beats Electronics'' President and COO Luke Wood, said Beats Music is set to launch within the next month, and will offer up streaming on the Web, iOS, and Android. READ MORE>>. beats electronics audio streaming music stream content'

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The protocol is used for single sign-on to applications in the cloud, and is what allows users to log into different web-based services using their Google, Yahoo, or other OAuth-capable service. OAuth is an industry standard used to share login data across different, cloud-based applications and services. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Factual said that the data adds specific neighborhood information to details on places retrieved from its database, which is used by mobile app developers, web programmers, and others to retrieve information about nearby businesses and locations. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

MetaCloud is headed by Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo's global storage operations. OpenStack is based on the cloud computing infrastructure at Rackspace, and is very similar to competing offerings from Amazon Web Services. MetaCloud's co-founders also include Sean Lynch, former Sr. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. 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. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Los Angeles-based Stamps.com is furthering its focus on online stories, saying today that it has linked its product to the e-commerce payment systems for Amazon.com Pro Merchant, Yahoo Merchant, Google Checkout, and Paypal. Tags: stamps ecommerce postage amazon yahoo google checkout paypal. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

The company said it has tapped Brian Pike, former CTo of Ticketmaster to the CTO role, Victoria von Szeliski, former Ticketmaster Deputy General Counsel to the General Counsel position, and former Yahoo VP of Product Management John Slade as its SVP of Product Management.

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JUNE 10, 2010

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online professional document sharing and marketplace startup headed by Jason Nazar, is one of the web services features on HP's new line of web-enabled printers. No other details on the new printer app from DocStoc were detailed by HP. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Anthem Ventures , represented by Samit Varma , and DFJ Frontier, represented by David Cremin , are two of the investors in Portland-based JanRain , whose software is used to allow websites to use existing online accounts such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo to sign up for other web services or even corporate applications.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?) and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The firm said the updated app helps users record and share those trips with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email, text, or within a blog or other web page.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) The web is interconnected, and traffic flows between sites that interlink.The more sites that link to you, the more sustainable traffic you build overtime. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based NativeTung , a startup developing software for managing translation of web sites into multiple languages, is unveiling itself at the DEMOfall conference today in San Diego. The firm's founders come from Oracle, Yahoo!, and PeopleSoft.

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MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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AUGUST 9, 2011

The company said the API converts Factual's own IDs into third party identifiers and URLs, and vice versa.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Starbucks said that it will give Wi-Fi enabled laptops, tablets, and mobile phones with unlimited access to the Web. In what can only be good news for many a high tech professional, coffee chain Starbucks said today that it will turn on free Wi-Fi in its stores July 1st, at all of its U.S. and Canadian company-owned stores.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Topspin, is run by Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. The firm's web applications are used by music artists to market their work and connect with fans. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Monica-based FlipGloss Media , a developer of visually driven, photo-centric web technology aimed at the fashion and news industry, announced today that it has launched a new web site for entertainment news provider Variety. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Search is just another web application.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital. Director, oversees creative development and physical production of derivative webisodes (Grey’s Anatomy, Cougar Town, Ugly Betty, etc.),

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Jeff is the founder of crowd-sourcing location based mapping services web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. All of these companies have been courted for M&A opportunities by existing public companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Research in Motion, Nokia to be purchased. However (More.).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney. with the clips.

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JULY 13, 2009

King.com has been offering casual games through its web sites, King.com and MyGame.com, since 2004. The firm also provides games for Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and others. The firm said that the new games, Kalorie King and Mars Lives, are the first in a series of new games designed exclusively for social networks and the iPhone. The firm's U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 said it will be adding support for similar campaign tools for Yahoo, MSN, Comssion Junction, and Atlas this quarter.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, And because Delicious was bought by Yahoo! (a Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion. So let’s take a look.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace said Tuesday afternoon that it has named three executives for the firm's music community, MySpace Music. Kantrowitz was most recently SVP International Marketing and Content for MySpace; Maghen was CTO at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The new program--similar to Google's AdSense program--links ReachLocal's ads into publisher web sites directly, rather than through Google or Yahoo's online ad networks. According to ReachLocal, the new technology platform is targeted at both major and "long tail" Internet publishers, who want to tap into local online ads.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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