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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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Interview with Ryan Scott, CauseCast

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An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. Ryan Scott: Originally, we started with consumer facing content.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Content: It should be intuitive to most that LA is well-suited to take on the world of content meets tech as we’ve seen with Maker Studios, Fullscreen, AwesomenessTV and Big Frame. acquired Overture for $1.63

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” 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. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more. Although a new company, it is already gaining momentum—being featured in European CEO, Playboy, and Da Man Magazine. In just a few minutes, anyone (no programming knowledge required) can create a mobile app.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. magazine and the LA Business Journal. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI Follow PandoDaily: Search. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Post navigation. ← Previous. RiJCFI 30 minutes ago. The iPad mini? "As thin as a pencil."