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The iPad – 5 Reasons Why its a Killer Product

The iPad – 5 Reasons Why its a Killer Product

Posted 06 April 2010 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News | No Comments

There is a revolution in being able to hold something as fluid, advanced and convenient as the iPad while comfortably leaning back in your chair versus hunching over to use a laptop.  The iPad represents a new computing space.  A space that has been created by our rapidly progressing content consumption trajectory coupled with the [...]

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Reply.com Files S1 to $60 Million IPO in 2010

Reply.com Files S1 to $60 Million IPO in 2010

Posted 22 February 2010 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, reply.com | No Comments

I’m excited to announce that about 3AM PST this morning Reply.com successfully filed for its much anticipated 2010 IPO.

SAN RAMON, CA – February 22, 2010 – Reply! Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common [...]

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Haiti Needs You – Donate $10 Via Text to the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief

Haiti Needs You – Donate $10 Via Text to the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief

Posted 14 January 2010 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News | No Comments

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday has left the island nation in complete and utter devastation with death tolls rising to a predicted 100,000.  One of the worst disasters ever seen.
Haiti needs help from everyone and the Red Cross backed by the US State Department have launched a simple viral text message [...]

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LeapFish & Make-a-Wish Foundation Join Forces to Raise $10,000 and Tweet an Ill Child’s Wish True

LeapFish & Make-a-Wish Foundation Join Forces to Raise $10,000 and Tweet an Ill Child’s Wish True

Posted 17 November 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, leapfish | No Comments

Another powerful use of social media and Twitter.  LeapFish has teamed up with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to empower Twitter users with the ability to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland.  A Tweet-A-Cause that just hit the wires and is beginning to climb through the Twitosphere.
Jacob, who is four years of age, has a rare [...]

LeapFish – The Web’s New Search Engine

LeapFish – The Web’s New Search Engine

Posted 11 November 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, Trends, leapfish | 2 Comments

The Web has evolved.  It used to be a place where people came to just search for simple information.  Now it’s a place where people come to also share information.  Information today that is multi-media and more complex.  Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people who know, and people you know. [...]

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Reply.com Continues Growing at Unprecedented Rate

Reply.com Continues Growing at Unprecedented Rate

Posted 04 September 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, reply.com | 3 Comments

Reply.com lifts Beta off its locally-targeted online marketing platform as it posts enhanced features and significant profits.  In the face of a struggling economy, Reply.com has posted over 50 percent revenue growth in the Automotive and Real Estate categories and significant profits over the last several quarters.
Since its founding in 2001, Reply! has been a [...]

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ChannelWeb : LeapFish Tries To Make A Big Splash

Posted 20 May 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, leapfish | No Comments

With all the publicity around WolframAlpha’s engine there has been a lot of buzz in the search space around what the next successful search engine will look like. It was great to get some coverage today from ChannelWeb as they covered WolframAlpha, LeapFish and the Search space.
Here is a snippet from the post :
“With [...]

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Reply.com Featured in San Francisco Business Times.

Reply.com Featured in San Francisco Business Times.

Posted 08 April 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, reply.com | 2 Comments

San Francisco Business Times :  “Reply.com’s online sales lead system tallies big growth”
As a founder and former CTO and Chief of Product of Reply!, it was great to see Reply! featured in the San Francisco Business Times today.  Reply! was founded in June of 2001 by Payam Zamani, Myself and John Truchard and is a [...]

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LeapFish Featured at Mashable.com

Posted 08 April 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, leapfish | 1 Comment

LeapFish received a great post as part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series last week.  The post was written by Ben Parr, who highlights some of our innovative new search features including the No-Click Search. 
Here are some excerpts from the article :

“Genius Idea:  When you’re performing a Google search, you are displayed information in a simple and [...]

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March 2009 MacBook Air Giveaway Winner Announced!

Posted 01 April 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, Promotions | 8 Comments

The March Twitter MacBook Air Random Giveaway is now officially complete and the winner has been selected!   
A big thank you to over 1500 contestants and participants, even those that joined Twitter simply to be eligible for this Apple Laptop giveaway.  Thank you for all the great tweets, follows and fun comments.  So who’s the lucky [...]

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LeapFish Gives Away a Free Wii & Wii Fit

Posted 12 March 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, Promotions | 3 Comments

Win a Wii & Wii Fit from LeapFish

LeapFish is excited to be giving away a Brand New Wii & Wii Fit to one lucky LeapFisher on March 23, 2009!  Everyone knows the Wii is tons of fun with tons of action and best of all you can use the Wii Fit to get in shape just in [...]

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Ben Behrouzi & The Most Fashionable Rumors Online

Ben Behrouzi & The Most Fashionable Rumors Online

Posted 12 March 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, Personal | 6 Comments

Hi, I’m Ben Behrouzi, and you should probably get the popcorn right now.  And don’t forget the butter.  Below are the most recent and most fashionable rumors about me online.  I try to update the list as frequently as possible but I may be a bit behind, so I do apologize in advance.
As you may already know its [...]

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Robert Scoble, Silicon Valley’s Top Influencer, Moving on From FastCompany

Robert Scoble, Silicon Valley’s Top Influencer, Moving on From FastCompany

Posted 06 March 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News | No Comments

Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, one of the key technical evangelists and thought leaders of the web will be leaving Fast Company.  Robert will continue to help and support entreprenuers worldwide in new and different capacities that he will soon announce at SXSW. 
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert in February as he provided coverage on [...]

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Twitter Giveaway – Win A MacBook Air From Me

Twitter Giveaway – Win A MacBook Air From Me

Posted 02 March 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News, Promotions | 250 Comments

You have to be in it to Win it!  
Want to win a  Free MacBook Air?  It could be the highest ROI on any Tweet you ever send.  I’m Ben Behrouzi, serial entrepreneur, and I’m giving away a brand new MacBook Air to one cool Twitter follower, Free!  One follower will be selected on March [...]

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Persecution of Baha'is Increase in Iran

Posted 23 February 2009 | By Ben Behrouzi | Categories: News | 1 Comment

I just wrote a piece on the recent increasing persecution of the Baha’is of Iran.  Most recently, several key community members of the Baha’is of Iran were kidnapped, charged without any evidence, imprisoned without access to a lawyer and now, one year later, scheduled for a staged trial that will determine their fate.  In 1980, the [...]

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