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JANUARY 10, 2019

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software said Wednesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of ISM Connect , a developer of software which provides on-screen, interactive demos for wireless carriers and retailers. Smith Micro is paying approximately $9.8M for ISM Connect, split between $4M in cash and $5.8M READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One of the best ways for increase in business development is to create a more responsive web design. You’ll want to make sure that your website looks good on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile device screens. When the size of the screen hits a certain threshold, your design will be put into columns or grid form.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Children that have iPads, and a need for great content to interact with on those iPads that meet the tough standards of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The criteria for this JibJab dad approved content is that it must be fun, engaging, with music that doesn’t suck after the 3 rd play, and also promotes learning. Gregg Spiridellis pondered.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Zui.com , the kid's website focused on providing screened content and information to kids, is expanding its services today, saying that it has launched "Facetube", which combines the best social sharing aspects of Facebook with the channels of YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Agoura Hills-based video game developer THQ and television channel Syfy said Thursday they will be jointly creating new concepts and intellectual property based on THQ's video games. The firms said the development of THQ's properties will be headed by Alan Seiffert, Senior Vice President of Syfy Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Children that have iPads, and a need for great content to interact with on those iPads that meet the tough standards of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The criteria for this JibJab dad approved content is that it must be fun, engaging, with music that doesn’t suck after the 3 rd play, and also promotes learning. Gregg Spiridellis pondered.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based DEFY Media , a developer of YouTube channels and digital content, said on Tuesday that it has raised $70M in a Series B funding. DEFY Media is led by Matt Diamond, and owns such brands as SMOSH, Clevver, Screen Junkies, AWEme, Break, and Made Man.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

The toolbar, which was developed by Conduit, allows Internet users to access Zui.com's games, videos, and other content directly from a browser. Zui.com is aimed at helping kids connect with interesting, web content, which has been screened and approved by parents.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Amazon Studios , the content production arm of Amazon.com, which has a heavy presence in Los Angeles, has launched a new effort to accept submissions of "shorts"--the short videos that filmmakers have traditionally pitched to gain deals with local studios. READ MORE>>. amazon studios hollywood shorts short video pitch production option'

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MARCH 21, 2013

StoryBots , the developer of entertaining, fun, and educational application and content, has launched a trio of new applications, the firm said Thursday. The StoryBots are brightly colored, on-screen creatures created by the brothers to help entertain and educate kids.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Entertainment Apps Conference will bring together top digital distribution and marketing execs from the major studios and networks, CE and set-top box makers, technology and platform providers, developer and content creators for a day-long conference on the emerging world of app-based entertainment content and services.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

me , a developer of mobile, interactive applications for the television and entertainment market, announced today that it has linked with Caesars Interactive Entertainment , to produce an application for the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The firm said it has created a "second-screen" experience for the WSOP telecasts on ESPN.

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MAY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D projection technology which is waiting in the wings for an IPO, revealed its latest year's result in an updated S-1 filing with the SEC last night. The firm's biggest growth was in international screens, where the firm had a 378 percent increase in enabled screens from last year.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, reports today that it has inked a deal with Chinese movie theater chain Wanda Cinema , to deploy up to 500 screens with its technology. The deal brings RealD's total deployed screens worldwide to around 9,300. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a developer of 3D movie projection technology, said last night that the firm's 3D technology was behind over 50 percent of the weekend domestic gross on Twentieth Century Fox's AVATAR film. The firm said its screens brought in nearly $40M of the total domestic box office from the James Cameron film.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , which says it is developing a "screen optimization platform" aimed at the TV and video ecosystem, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , which says it is developing a "screen optimization platform" aimed at the TV and video ecosystem, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Tags: jacked roundbox merger acquisition television content software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. The site offers up a hybrid mix of traditional journalists, industry experts and User Generated Content.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a developer of 3D movie technology used by movie theaters to project 3D movies, said over the weekend that it delivered 50 percent of the $31M, opening weekend gross for Disney's A Christmas Carol. The firm said it now has over 9,000 screens under contract, with 4,000 screens installed in 48 countries.

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APRIL 29, 2019

The opening of the Marvel Studio's Avenger: Endgame has set records as the biggest, 3D movie opening of all times, according to Beverly Hills-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD. According to RealD, 3D screens represented approximately 45 percent of the estimated $1.2 billion generated from the opening of the movie.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based mobile entertainment and gaming developer Jam City said today that it is getting behind an effort to encourage its users to register to vote in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, through a joint effort with nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization When We All Vote.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Check out panels on What Accelerators Want, Meet the Junior VCs, Music, Games, Social TV, Arts Education, PR for Startups, Women Developers, Ad Tech, Telling Your Story: Script to Startup, Film Financing: Crowdfunding and VCs. The panelists will pick their fave pitch to give a 5-minute pitch. See [link].

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. Sometimes, it's just content presented online. How did you decide this needed to be a combination of software and content?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. They also had much experience before that. We all loved Andrew & Petri and their vision.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

of the service now includes ways for children to send videos, websites, and photos to their parents, and for parents to send content to children. San Diego-based KidZui has upgraded the firm's web browser for children, saying yesterday that version 5.0 The company also said its upgraded software allows parents to connect through Facebook.

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JULY 15, 2010

However, here are four companies-- not creating content for the Internet--which wouldn't exist without the intersection of both Hollywood and the technology industry. If so, you very likely watched in on a RealD-enabled movie screen. Tags: content startup technology hollywood. RealD - Los Angeles- Michael Lewis, CEO [ profile ].

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

your GoPro Hero--anywhere you want, for the ultimate aerial photography and video platform, with up to 15 minute flight time and live, on-screen control and piloting. Oculus Rift Development Kit 2. The X8+ Drone from 3D Robotics is an octo-copter which can haul up to 800 grams--i.e. 3D Robotics is based in San Diego.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a developer of 3D movie projection equipment, has released its latest install numbers, saying over the weekend that it now has over 8,700 screens contracted, and over 3,200 screens installed with its technology. Tags: reald movie projector content. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, released its results Thursday, saying its Q3 2011 revenues rose to $57.8M, up 91 percent from Q3 of of 2010, when it reported revenues of $30.2M. The firm had a net GAAP loss of $16.6M. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Cinedigm , a developer of digital cinema products, said today that it has deployed its products in the Caribbean. Cinedigm said that Caribbean Cinemas will deploy up to 290 screens using its technology. The firm said the deal is its first large scale deployment outside the continental US and Canada.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. The world is adopting smart phones and for many young people and many people in the developing world this will be one of their first computing devices. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. The power of a keyboard.

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JUNE 18, 2009

According to the two, Outcast will be responsible for advertising sales and marketing of the network, and AdtekMedia will provide software and systems development, as well as focus on product and technology innovation. Tags: outcast pumptop adtekmedia advertising station network video screen merger acquisition.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , which develops 3D theater projection systems, reported today that it delivered approximately $47M of the $109M in domestic box office from Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3 title, which opened this weekend. Tags: reald movie content disney story toystory pixar. READ MORE>>.

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