Mobile ad spending drives slight revenue growth for Marchex

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More spending toward mobile consumers helped Seattle-based online advertising company Marchex, as it reported a slight bump in revenue on its first quarter earnings report. “Momentum across our Call Products drove accelerating growth in the first quarter,” Russell Horowitz, CEO of Marchex, said in a press release. “Advertisers are spending more marketing dollars going after mobile… Read More…

The top tech stocks of 2012: Shares of Expedia take off

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Super computers. Online travel. And marketing tools for real estate agents. Those were the hot segments in the Seattle tech sector in 2012 as Cray, Expedia and Market Leader each saw their stock prices more than double. Generally speaking, it was a solid year for tech stocks, with the Nasdaq up 14 percent on the… Read More…

Marchex to split in two, form new ad and domain marketplace Archeo

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The name Archeo is derived from the Greek word “arche” — meaning beginning. And that’s exactly what’s happening with Seattle-based online advertising company Marchex — a new beginning. The 9-year-old company is announcing today that its board has authorized a plan to split into two separate public companies, one operating under the name of Marchex… Read More…

Ex-Marchex exec lands cash for Lucky Oyster, plans to take on Bing and Google in social search

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Matthew Berk is just four weeks into his new Seattle startup, Lucky Oyster. But the former executive vice president of product engineering at Marchex and CTO at Open List already understands that he’s on a potential collision course with the likes of Google, Bing, Facebook and others. After all, Berk’s idea at Lucky Oyster is to… Read More…

Tech Moves: Zones bolsters exec team; Bobber hooks gamification whiz; and more

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Zones has kept a pretty low profile in recent the years, but the seller of technology products to businesses has been on an impressive growth path topping $1 billion in revenue last year. Now, Zones is strengthening its executive team in order to push things forward. Mark Nehring, formerly a sales VP at HP, has… Read More…

Marchex warns of Q4 revenue miss after weakness in legacy business

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Marchex today said that it expects revenue in the range of $38.8 million to $39 million for the fourth quarter, with the Seattle online advertising company noting in the preliminary results that “non-call-driven revenues fell short of expectations during the quarter.” The company had originally told Wall Street that it expected revenue of $40 million…. Read More…

Nasdaq closes with a loss for 2011: A look back at the top and bottom performers

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It was a tough year for most of the publicly-traded tech companies in Washington state, with just a handful posting positive overall stock performance. Even tech titans like Amazon.com, Microsoft and F5 Networks shed value in 2011, marking an overall negative year on the Nasdaq. In fact, the tech-heavy Nasdaq  dropped 1.8 percent during 2011,… Read More…

Marchex rings up revenues on call advertising growth

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Marchex placed a significant bet two years ago that the phone call wasn’t dead. Now, the Seattle online advertising company is experiencing growth in that business, reporting today that revenues increased to $39.9 million during the third quarter, up from $24.2 million for the same period last year. Net income was $1.2 million, which compared… Read More…

Morning Radar: Doxo; Michael Arrington; Cheezburger’s new book; Apptio; Marchex and more

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Doxo has inked a deal with Sound Community Bank, allowing customers of the bank to get all bills and communications in their “digital file cabinet.” The Seattle company, backed by Jeff Bezos and Mohr Davidow Ventures and led by former Qpass executive Steve Shivers, is allowing companies to remove paper billing for customers. G2 Web… Read More…