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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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He kicked off the fest with his opening keynote, saying LA is a unique city of mash-ups, where tech, startups and entertainment – plus creativity, cultures, and passion – mix with successful results. Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

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What Hollywood hasn’t been able to deliver in film or television has seen generational break-out successes like Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” or the astounding success of Despacito , now the all-time most viewed video on YouTube approaching 4 billion views. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising. In San Francisco, it's technology people looking to find business people.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. jebbdykstra99 AlbertKo A PR firm or news/leaflet producer is not a tech company. Post navigation.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. They know we''re trying hard, and they''re patient with us through all of the technical difficulties we ran into over the last seven years as just a ragtag group. How did the network come about?

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