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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

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. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. In this it has disappointed to fully achieve the aspirations of its founding fathers.

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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives

Tech.Co

And if you work in the entertainment industry, you have Stage 32. by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. In the past year alone the company has amassed over 1k hours of educational content and generated over $1 million.

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Tech Cocktail

SoCal Tech Calendar

Known for its entertainment scene which blossomed in the early nineteen hundreds, LA also has some of the best schools in the country in UCLA and USC. The event will offer a cocktail event atmosphere for tech enthusiasts a place to connect with the local tech companies, entrepreneurs and more established LA companies.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

socalTECH

We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. In 2012 over $3.2

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. An example of that is the UCLA flood. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about?

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