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OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. There is much magic going on in this town with both pure tech as well as media tech. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well. Maker Studios.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

While not 100% accurate, software tools use specialized dictionaries to help semantically determine the meaning of your Tweet and rate them as positive, negative or neutral. Tags: Social Media social networking startup technology Twitter.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ).

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