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Local.com Drops LEC Billing Acquisitions

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Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. Tags: local.com local paid search advertising. READ MORE>>.

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imFORZA Spins Out of The Design People

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. imFORZA provides search engine optimization, paid search advertising, social media marketing, and other related services. Tags: marketing internet acquisition merger mforza.

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CPC Marketing Firm Bardon Advisors Acquired

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Los Angeles-based Bardon Advisors , a cost-per-click (CPC) search and affiliate marketing firm, has been acquired by New York-based MediaTrust. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Tags: bardon advisors mediatrust merger acquisition cpcp advertising ecommerce.

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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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Mike Mothner: The business today, is we are a digital agency focused on customer acquisition and growth for businesses of all types. Mike Mothner: With the acquisition of Standing Dog, which technically closed today, that added about 75 people to bring us to 260 employees. What has helped you grow to the size where you are now?

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ValueClick Sells Search123

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Westlake Village-based ValueClick has divested Search213 , the company's European, self-service, paid search business, the company said today. According to ValueClick, it sold Search123 to its former executive in charge of European operations, Carl White.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. . I think everybody heard about this acquisition. In fact, it is Overture 2.0. Because GoTo.com was his idea.