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MARCH 28, 2013

The comedy pilot, which is set in the "land of Silicon Valley start-ups", is actually being filmed at ROC Santa Monica, the real-life, startup coworking space which recently opened in Google's old Santa Monica offices. The stars of the pilot are Ed Begley Jr., Jon Daly, Joe Dinicol, Margo Harshman, Charlie Saxton and Karan Soni.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Irvine-based smart television maker VIZIO announced today that it has added Google Play Movies & TV to its smart TVs in Canada. VIZIO already supports other streaming services, such as Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube, on its line of Internet Apps Plus smart TVs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Google said Thursday that it is expanding its Google Express next day delivery service across Southern California, and will offer next day delivery from such stores like Costco, Target, Kohl's, and L'Occitane en Provence. Google Express costs $95 a year, or $10 a month, or a-la-carte delivery for $4.99 READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2013

In one of those "only in Silicon Beach" moments, a pilot show from Amazon Studios--Betas--has apparently been filming its pilot show at Silicon Beach technology hangout Real Office Centers (ROC), off Arizona in Santa Monica. ROC is located in what was Google's former Santa Monica offices. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 16, 2018

Google Cloud’s new region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today. This isn’t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but it’s a big step for Google, which now boasts five cloud regions in the United States.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. We afford this pathway between the studio in LA and the studio in Bangalore.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

The move is a fairly significant one for Goodreads, which grew initially completely reliant on book information and cover art from Amazon.com, but which has grown its reach well beyond Amazon. Goodreads is backed by True Ventures, Michael Jones (MySpace, Userplane), along with others.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Amazon said its new AutoRip service will automatically load a MP3 version of CDs purchase on the site, for immediate streaming or download by users. Plus, Amazon said it will dig into its archives of CD purchases and provide the same tracks to users automatically based on what they previously purchased from the company. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference. The service is a direct competitor to MP3tunes, which offers its own, streaming "music locker" service. com--has been around since 2005.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Culver City-based network products developer PacketFabric say it has released a new, "cloud router" product, which supports connecting multiple, 100Gbps cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

With the acquisition, Fastly is planting a flag as a new competitor in the cybersecurity market, even as companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google offer a wider array of services under their internet as a service business lines.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Culver City-based network products developer PacketFabric say it has updated its "cloud router" product, which supports connecting multiple, 100Gbps cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The new device works with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, and Hey Google. The new devie will cost $39.99, and is now available at Amazon and Belkin's website. Wemo is the smart home unit of consumer giant Belkin. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Cameo--worth now over $1 bihllion--is backed by Amazon, Google, UTA, and others. Represent operates e-commerce sites for celebrity clients, and counts such clients as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Lopez, and Kendall Jenner, among many others. Represent was founded in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Pitaya Entertainment said its podcasts will be free, and will be available on such services as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Pandora. The new startup is being led by Manging Partner and Co-Foudner Zach Horowitz.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Orca Security develops cloud security and compliance software running on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Los Angeles-based Orca Security, a developer of cloud security software, has joined Southern California's unicorns, raising $210M in a Series C funding.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Irvine-based HDTV maker VIZIO said today that it has added new support for Amazon's Alexa , across its line of VIZIO SmartCast TVs. VIZIO explained that the effort is linked to expanded voice functionality on its TVs, which also include support and compatability with Google Assistant. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2019

The company said the software connects into such platforms as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, The Trade Desk and Google's YouTube, AdWords, DoubleClick, and others. Pricing on the new software was not announced. AdGreetz--led by CEO and founder Eric Frankel--said the new software allows for deplying "hyper-personzlied" ads.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Advantage Solutions says that Quantum Networks represents more than 100 brands on seven global online marketplaces, and in particular is a Amazon third-party seller across a wide range of categories, including consumer electronics, audio, sports and outdoors, health, household, and camera and photo. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2020

According to the company, it will launch a season of live broadcasts and on-demand programming with editorial coverage, beginning in early June, working with such partners as 2K, Square Enix, SEGA, Bandai Namco, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Devolver Digital, THQ Nordic, and others.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Ember, led by Clay Alexander, says its team includes product designers and engineers formerly with Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon Labs. Westlake Village-based Ember Technologies , the maker of a temperature controlled, thermal mug, has raised $13M more in funding, the company disclosed today.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Zadara said it will ship its own storage equipment to a company's own site, where data can be restored and brought back online; the company also offers up cloud-based storage options, which uses Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others, for storage. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The batteries in the move will last for up to ten hours, and the speaker--like all of other Sonos devices--works with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, along with over 100 different streaming music services. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

With “Hey Google” and “Alexa” echoing from the expo halls of Las Vegas to millions of homes, the hype around voice-controlled computing is reaching a new peak in early 2018. Voice-controlled devices are permeating our world, and this new user interface is the future of computing—or so we are told by the companies purveying it.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

HAAWK said it will delivers assets to, and administers royalties generated by, music and media retailers including YouTube Content ID, iTunes/ Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, Pandora, Google Play, TIDAL, Deezer, and SoundCloud. HAAWK was co-founded by Ryan Born (CEO), Benjamin Barger (COO), and Ben Lister (CRO).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Watson--along with his co-founders, John Myers, Ali Golshan and Laszlo Bock--were engineers and developers who had worked for the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services. The startup is led by Alex Watson, who serves as founder and CEO.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Google, as it develops its smart home systems, is turning to a company that already knows how to navigate the terrain of a household—corridors, kitchens, cat beds, cast-off shoes, and chair legs included.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Change is always hard, so people already on Amazon are not easy convert to another e-commerce system. Overconfidence.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Google, it’s worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud. The general idea here — and that’s not dissimilar from what Google, Microsoft and others are now doing — is to bring AWS to the edge and to do so in a variety of form factors. Google, meanwhile, is betting big on Anthos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Offer premium services after user is hooked.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

When asked about what he thinks of major giants such as Google and Amazon also expanding into these fields, Vaish said these companies are largely making solutions for users — and not businesses. Voice bots would help it find more clients, such as those who handle customer services through phones, for instance.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

RBmedia's audiobooks are available via smart phones, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, Amazon Echo, Google Home, and smart watches. Financial details of the deal were not announced. RBmedia is a publisher of audiobooks, and is based in Landover, Maryland. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scooping up Raleigh, NC-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT ) could make IBM (NYSE: IBM ) more competitive with bigger cloud players such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, says Michael Skok, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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APRIL 4, 2017

According to the firm, its new CloudLens Public software operates in cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services. The software will initially launch on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with plans to support Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in the second half of 2017.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Biden's latest podcast focuses on the fight to end sexual assault on campus, and is featured on the website, iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, as well as through Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Ground Control--which is venture backed by CAA --says that the new site is a collaboration between the company and the Creative Artists Agency.

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