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Evolve Media Buys RealityTea.com, WebEcoist.com

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the parent firm of AtomicOnline, SheKnows, and a network of other digital media sites, announced this morning that it has acquired two sites-- RealityTea.com , focused on reality entertainment, and WebEcoist.com , a green living site. Los Angeles-based Evolve Media Corp. ,

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Digital LA

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. Extra extra read all about it! online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc! See [link] (more).

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Interview with Gregg Champion, OneCubicle

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Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

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Interview with Sam Altman, PartyEarth

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Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. How long has your site been available? Sam Altman: We launched in November of 2009. We launched in November of 2009, an dit's been an amazing experience to date. What is PartyEarth? Now, we also have six cities within the U.S.,

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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2009 Coming To A Close, 2010 Just Around The Corner!

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Are you interested?