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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010 -- Content World Turned Upside Down: Can Traditional Media Adapt? Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. TCOSC Digital Media Society.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops cloud-based learning and human capital management software, said late Wednesday that it has acquired Grovo Learning , a provider of "micro-learning" content, in a deal worth $24M in cash. Grovo was founded in 2010, and has offices in New York City and San Francisco.

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JULY 19, 2010

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- ExecTec - Hot Content To Go. See [link] (more).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Kajabi said the funding is its first institutional funding since it launched in 2010.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010 -- Social Media and Content Marketing Workshop and Breakfast. See [link] (more).

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MAY 14, 2012

When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! This automated coupling of intent and content results in uber-relevancy and ultimately enhances marketers’ ROI. and Overture Services. Another promising company in this space is SteelHouse.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Pubcon 2010 and all the amazing content that we will be streaming live from our booth is here. Tags: Advertising & PR Blogging Events Pubcon Bloggie Collecta FreshDrop Lunch pubcon Pubcon 2010 Sony Wowee. The time has come! To top things off we decided that we are going to be giving a Sony Bloggie away to one lucky viewer.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

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JULY 12, 2017

Ephesoft develops machine learning software which is used to capture, extract, and analyze unstructured content from financial, federal, insurance, mortgage, and healthcare documents. The company was founded by Ike Kavas, and was founded in 2010. Joe Kaiser of Mercato joins the company's board with the funding. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The firm said its RPost for Outlook 2000-2010 adds support for Outlook 2010 32-bit and 64-bit, new security features, better configuration options, and more. The software is used to send encrypted emails, as well as capture proof of email delivery and content for legal reasons.

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JUNE 28, 2018

. “Microsoft is committed to helping content creators achieve more using the cloud with a partner-focused approach to this industries transformation,” said Tad Brockway, General Manager, Azure Storage, Media and Edge at Microsoft, in a statement.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Venice, California-based ZEFR , the online content distribution startup founded by Zach James and Richard Raddon, has some new experience in its corner: Ross Levinsohn, the former interim CEO of Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Earbits had been founded in 2010. earbits music discovery listening deadpool shutdown content' Earbits had been trying to offer up a way to discover new music and artists , offering up artists and labels a way to market their music to new listeners. Earbits said it would offer up a pro-rated refund to those labels and artists.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said Thursday afternoon that the company brought in approximately $420M in revenues in 2011, up 60 percent from 2010, and now has more than 1.5 million paying subscribers to Hulu Plus. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2012

Amazon Studios said it is looking for submissions for proposals for both categories of content, and is hoping that writers, animators, and filmmakers will looking to bolster content for its Amazon Instant Video service, and is encouraging writers, animators, and filmmakers to submit proposals for comedic and children's series.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media , the parent firm of Gorlla Nation and AtomicOnline, said today that it has acquired Crowd Ignite , a developer of a "content exchange" engine which provides content to online publishers. Crowd Ignite's content is used to provide content to vertical audiences to drive traffic to websites.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks said Friday that it now has more than 2000 customers, or more than double the number of customers from the previous year, as of the close of 2010. The firm said those customers include AdColony, Dreamstime, SlashGear, StreamCity, and Tumblr.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 8-11 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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JULY 6, 2011

The firm reported 875,000 paid Hulu Plus subscribers as of June 2011, up from less than 250,000 six months ago, in December of 2010. per month, with the remainder of the payout to content providers coming from advertising revenue.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Hulu also said that all PS3 owners with a PlayStation Network account will also be able to access the service, and that Hulu Plus will be available on Sony BRAVIA 2010 TVs. Hulu Plus offers up access to additional content and features of the Hulu service, and was launched about five months ago. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The deal is the second with Microsoft for AudioMicro, which is headed by Ryan Born; the firm already has a deal with Microsoft Office 2010 for similar links to its content. AudioMicro said Microsoft is including it in the newly updated release of the software, used by Windows users to create their own videos. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. How does that work?

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JULY 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, is targeting a blog which has been posting internal documents and criticism of the company. The site appears to have been created by an unhappy, freelance contributor to Demand Media in May of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Agoura Hills-based videogame maker THQ has drastically lowered its sales guidance, saying early this morning that it has updated fiscal guidance for its fiscal first quarter ending June 30th and fiscal year ending March 31, 2011, due to "lower than anticipated sales" of its title UFC Undisputed 2010, plus a strengthening US dollar.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

in the first six months of 2010. of its revenues came from its Content & Media division, and $47.7M Tags: demand media merger acquisition content richard rosenblatt public. The firm's IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co., For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu is looking to get more of its users connected with its content directly from television sets, saying Friday that it is in a special promotion with Roku to offer up a bundled Hulu Plus, its premium streaming service, with Roku's video streaming hard, the Roku HD. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 -- The Future Has Arrived: Connected Home Reality is Now: Patrick Henry CEO Entropic. Weve heard about the connected home for years, where consumers have the freedom to enjoy advanced whole-home content and services, when and where they want it, in their home. See [link] (more).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Docstoc has been offering up the subscription, premium documents service since November of 2010, in addition to offering up those individual documents a la carte to users browsing its site.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Walmart acquired Vudu in 2010. According to Vudu, Fandango will continue to run the video streaming service, and all of its users will continue to have access to their movies and television shows they have purchased. Vudu will also continue to power Walmart's digital movie and TV store at Walmart.com. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Amazon.com has been ramping up efforts in Southern California through Amazon Studios, to attract new content for its video streaming service. Amazon also revealed that since launching in November of 2010 it has seen more than 14,000 movie scripts and 2,500 original series submitted. Johnson project, created by J.J. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon, which has been issuing quarterly reports on ad trends, said that it believes that 2010 is "shaping up to be the strongest year yet" for online ad spending. Tags: rubicon project online advertising content. The firm develops its report from tracking a group of twenty premium websites it manages through its REVV Marketplace.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a network of male-centric content web sites, said today that it has linked with home entertainment system company Yoostar in a promotion. Tags: break content media publishing yoostar competition. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The deal covers every season of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including day-after broadcast of the upcoming 2010, 2011, and 2012 season; series 30 Rock, The Office, Law & ORder: SVU; prior seasons of Friday Night Lights; and prior seasons of Psych, In Plain Sight, Monk, Battlestar Galactica, Destination Truth, and Eureka.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

El Segundo-based satellite broadcaster DIRECTV said Wednesday at CES that it is in a deal with HDTV manufacturer Panasonic, to broadcast 3D television starting in June of 2010. on producing additional, 3D programming to debut in 2010 and 2011. Tags: directv broadcast satellite television content hollywood video.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- Hollywood Web Television Meetup. Join us for Tubefilter's Hollywood Web Television Meetup on January 21st, 2010 in Los Angeles. We're delving into independent content production with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf of Epic Fu. This month? See [link] (more).

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