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MAY 9, 2013

Pasadena-based Idealab has sold another one of its companies to Yahoo today: GoPollGo , a Twitter polling service which let Twitter users collect feedback from their friends and followers. According to GoPollGo, it will be joining Yahoo! gopollgo idealab merger acquisition yahoo twitter feedback polling' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2012

A familiar face in Southern California's technology industry reappeared in a high profile position this weekend: Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Fox Interactive Media and venture capitalist at Fuse Capital, has taken the reins at troubled Internet portal Yahoo , after the company decided to replace CEO Scott Thompson. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile apps and other mobile advertising products, said today that it has named Yahoo veteran Eric Aledort as the company''s Chief Business Development Officer. Aledort was most recently VP, head of media for Yahoo''s global partnerships group. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Yahoo is planning a big investment in Venice-based Snapchat , in a deal that values Snapchat at $10 billion, according to a report over the weekend. The WSJ reports that Yahoo is investing around $20M in Snapchat at the lofty valuation, using money it cashed out of the IPO of Alibaba. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2012

It looks like Ross Levinsohn is building out his team to help out at troubled web portal and media firm Yahoo. Barrett also has served at AOL Media Networks, GeoCities and Disney Online, in addition to a stint in Sales at Yahoo. Barrett was Chief Revenue Officer at Los Angeles-based MySpace. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Internet portal Yahoo is continuing its makeover back into a Silicon Valley style workplace, and apparently has extended its free food offer to employees at two of the company's New York locations, according to reports today. However, it looks like--so far--that revolution has skipped Yahoo's Southern California operations.

Yahoo

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MAY 3, 2021

Yahoo--one of the Internet's first companies--is back as a standalone company, after the private equity acquisition of Verizon Media by private equity firm Apollo Funds. According to Verizon and Apollo Global Management, Apollo will pay $5 billion for Verizon Media, which will be renamed Yahoo as a result of the deal.

Yahoo

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MARCH 31, 2014

Levinsohn is the best known of the three, having most recently been interim CEO at Yahoo!, marketshare executive advisory board analytics software marketing markets yahoo levinsohn ross' in addition to serving at Fuse Capital and Fox Interactive Media. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Yahoo said that it added both Brandt and Catherine J. said Thursday that it has named two new, independent directors--including Eric K. Brandt, former CFO of Broadcom--as it looks to explore strategic alternatives for the company.

Yahoo

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Cunninghame was last overseeing and developing marketplace strategy for the OpenX real-time bidding platform, and also had served as Director of Product Management at Yahoo. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Miso Robotics, a maker of burger-flipping robotic arms, announced it has appointed former Yahoo executive Melissa Burghardt as its chief operating officer.

Yahoo

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APRIL 6, 2011

ReachLocal helps small and medium sized busineses place pay-per-click ads on Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as other websites. ReachLocal said it will train SureFire's dedicated sales force to sell its products and services. Business details of the alliance were not announced. READ MORE>>.

ReachLocal

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MAY 15, 2012

SaneBox has recently launched an email plugin which works with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and other email programs, and helps users filter, set up reminders, unsubscribe to unwanted email lists, and much more. A new startup focused on taming email overload has recently emerged, and looks to have some LA connections. READ MORE>>.

Email

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JULY 14, 2010

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

Santa Monica

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Venice, California-based ZEFR , the online content distribution startup founded by Zach James and Richard Raddon, has some new experience in its corner: Ross Levinsohn, the former interim CEO of Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo

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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>>.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2012

What went wrong at Yahoo!? Jonathan Strauss is ex Yahoo!). Plus, when it’s text it gets forwarded too easily so if you discuss nuanced topics and have an unconventional view you run the risk of pissing too many people off. So the issues we took on this week? And here is the tl;dr version.

Yahoo

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Dossett (who has summitted Mount Everest two times) was also previously CEO of Pasadena-based AdventureLink, and also served at Yahoo! Porch''s founders are split between Seattle and Southern California. and Microsoft. READ MORE>>. porch jeff dossett chief revenue officer demand media executive everest'

Demand

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Spreeify said its product works with major ad servers (DoubleClick, Sizmek, OpenX, AppNexus), DSPs (Rubicon Project, Turn, RocketFuel, DataXu, TheTradeDesk) and publishers (AOL, Yahoo, Pandora, MSN), and is already being used by such customers as JustFab, Sony and Papyrus. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Mobile

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Nassef was previously Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! As part of the funding, the company said that it has added former Yahoo! The company says its service helps viewers follow, share and discover TV and video via their mobile devices. Middle East & Africa, and also was head of Maktoob.com. READ MORE>>.

Guide

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. Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Example What do I mean?

Google

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. Eventually other networks will emerge. They have to. Interview here).

Hollywood

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We had a blast together in December at our first #140conf LA Meetup at Yahoo! 140conf LA Meetup hosted by Jeff Pulver and Eric Greenspan. Hello again! didn’t we? Thanks to Jeff Pulver for another great event. Well, we couldn’t leave well enough alone so we’re gonna do it again and this time, it will be bigger and better.

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JULY 22, 2013

Topline Game Labs is led by David Geller, the prior Global Head of Fantasy Sports at Yahoo! topline games fantasy sports marketplace venture capital content yahoo' The funding came from Cantor Ventures, the venture capital arm of New York investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. The funding was announced--but not broadly covered--in June.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The issue of whether or not to allow remote workers has come to the forefront after a highly publicized effort by Yahoo''s new CEO, Marissa Meyer, to force that company''s entire workforce to come into the office. Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put the company''s new policy in place in February, igniting a firestorm of controversy.

Encino

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JUNE 2, 2010

But it seems to me that Google has 2 issues: For all of the talk about Yahoo’s “ Peanut Butter Manifesto &# in which Yahoo! I think when they put their mind to things they are the most talented technology company on the planet. Or at least in the top 3.

Yahoo

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JULY 22, 2011

So far, Hulu apparently has been shopped to Yahoo, AT&T, Microsoft, and Google. 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. The report came from Bloomberg, which cited "two people with knowledge of the auction".

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Metacloud said Grey had been at Google for the last decade, and also has served at Yahoo!, Metacloud--which helps companies deploy enterprise scale, private clouds based on OpenStack--said that Grey will be responsible for heading up its scalability efforts and architecture. Earthlink, Digital Planey, USWeb, and Idealab.

Google

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JUNE 9, 2014

The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). Santa Monica-based Washio , which operates a smartphone driven, laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery service, said today that it has raised $10.5M in a Series A funding round.

Santa Monica

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) and John Slade (Yahoo)--apparently recently raised a round which included Siemer Ventures. A new, Altadena-based startup, Rexter , has scored some funding to help it build its software algorithms and tools to help manage a user's professional relationships.

Help

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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?

Yahoo

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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

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MARCH 20, 2015

Wilson has previously led venture capital firm Momentum Venture Management, and also was an executive at Yahoo/Overture Services, RiverOne, and Bowne & Co.; he has also been extensively involved in Innovate Pasadena, which is helping to bring together the Pasadena technology and design ecosystem.

Altadena

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APRIL 18, 2012

The company said the new office will help support its Bay Area client base, plus provide it with local access to agency representatives at Google and Yahoo. The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients.

Paid Search

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. MSN, or Google for the social media age." READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! He said, “The reason I needed to go was the I believe that you either lead, follow or get the fuck out of the way. I was no longer leading, so I became the problem.” ” Hallelujah. understood that. What a wonderful company they built.

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