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JUNE 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said today that it has launched a new, beta of a local business site called Bizzy. The new site is launching first in New York, San Francisco, and Dallas. Tags: reachlocal bizzy social networking business. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Online social networking site Classmates.com , which is a unit of Woodland Hills-based United Online , has agreed to pay $9.5M in a legal settlement over the firm's use of promotional emails implying that former classmates were looking to contact free members.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based United Online appears to be making a major shift in strategy for its Classmates.com subsidiary. According to United Online this morning, it is looking to transform Classmates from what is now a social networking company to a "premier nostalgia content center" on the Internet. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2011

Woodland Hills-based United Online is launching a big push of its newly renamed Memory Lane business. United Online said in February that it had refocused Classmates into Memory Lane, a new site focused on nostalgic magazines, newsreels, high school yearbooks, and other information.

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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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JUNE 24, 2011

Classmates International , the unit of Woodland Hills-based United Online which has recently been transitioning from a service to find old classmates and associates into one focused on nostalgic memories under the name MemoryLane , has been hit by a trademark suite. The suit was filed by Memory Lane Inc.,

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MARCH 8, 2011

In a twist to the popularity of mobile "check-in" applications, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal's local recommendation site Bizzy said this morning that it has launched "Check-Outs", a new feature which allows users to rate and review local businesses--after visiting those businesses.

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