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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. Sony Pictures Entertainment/Imageworks wasn’t a founding member but joined a few months after the foundation got off the ground.

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Smart Audio – A Lucrative Platform… If You Figure Out How To Leverage It

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My wife quickly adopted Alexa as a member of the family, relying on her for recipes, jokes, telling the time, predicting the weather and, of course, playing music. The evolution of home entertainment offers numerous opportunities for startups to leverage the new and innovative ways consumers are digesting audio content.

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The Breakthrough Presentation that Stole the Upfront Summit

Both Sides of the Table

He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people.

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6 Suggestions For How To Begin Your Startup Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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6 Tips For Entrepreneurs To Lock In On The Right Road

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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How Napkin Finance Is Demystifying Personal Finance, One Napkin At A Time

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The idea is that we want to simplify complex topics, in a way that is fun, engaging, and entertaining. That grew into these napkins, and into a platform, where we have the opportunity to teach individuals, including using videos, a glossary of finance terms, and other assets. For many people, that's the same way.

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