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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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Los Angeles-based EA Mobile , the mobile game publishing arm of Electronic Arts, has set its sights on a new platform for its mobile games: Amazon's Kindle. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. in 2005 for $680M.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee

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Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

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According to Eichner, Google Mini has been an important part of Google’s Enterprise Search offering since its introduction in 2005 and was helpful however it will be discontinued on July 31, 2012. Some may not remember Google Video, the service stopped taking uploads in May 2009 but still has hosted content and a number of users.

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