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JULY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based private equity investment firm The Evergreen Group has acquired video game franchise Backyard Sports , the investor announced yesterday. backyard sports merger acquisition evergreen private equity content videogame atari' Financial details of the acquisition deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

A group which represents music publishers said today that it has negotiated a private settlement with LA''s Maker Studios , and filed a copyright infingement suit against Los Angeles YouTube network Fullscreen , over the illegal use of unlicensed musical networks. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Vyclone (www.vyclone.com) has created a mobile application which lets users capture videos, and automatically edits and combines multiple points of view from people nearby, and remixes it into an even more compelling video. The last I sold was in 2004, when I relocated to Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup urRadio (www.urradio.com) thinks so. First, it''s very costly, and because there are lots of content and rights issues. However, we felt there was a need for live content. We thought we could bring something to the table, and provide some live content to Internet radio. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Matching ads to content is what they do. Photos…the final frontier. How does it work?

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JULY 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends. The thing that is interesting, from our content partners and to brands and agencies, is all of the clips has metadata which is transact-able.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Technology.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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APRIL 25, 2011

The round was led by Don Walerstein, founding partner of entertainment law firm Rohner & Walerstein, and included Los Angeles investor Bradley Maryman, founder and president of international security and technical consulting firm Maryman & Associates.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. IoT: Rufus Labs.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. He is looking to find more.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation. Chris Dumler is an advocate of the Los Angeles startup community and the culture that holds it together. Gold Sponsor. .

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 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. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Post navigation.

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MAY 14, 2010

If you measure it in terms of patents generated, measure it in terms of the number of technical jobs per 100,000 residents--it's very high on all analytical measurements. It's also high in Los Angeles, but I think per-capita it gets pretty diluted, due to the huge population.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending. I had a specific interest in 2001/2002 when I came to the area to live and work, instead of splitting my time between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. That was an interest in the ecosystem level.

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JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. And be generous. We’ve found some good ones!

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JUNE 4, 2006

It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. This would later inspire the genesis of StrongMail. So much for resting!

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