Fri.Nov 06, 2015

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Demand Media Sees Steep Drop In Content Revenues, Cuts Staff

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media is continuing to see a steep drop in revenues from its content and media efforts, reporting Thursday afternoon that it had $15.9M in revenues from its Content & Media segments, compared with $33.6M in the same quarter in 2014. The company said the drop came due to traffic declines to eHow and lower ad monetization yields.

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8 Reasons Young at Heart Entrepreneurs Lead the Way

Startup Professionals Musings

Surviving as an entrepreneur requires unbridled passion, enthusiasm and a certain naiveté in the face of many unknowns. Young people are more accustomed to facing a new world each day, so they don’t worry about it, and usually actually relish the new adventure. Once the rest of us reach a certain age, we know too many things that can go wrong, so we avoid the path entirely.

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Zaniac Launches After School, Minecraft Programs In Santa Monica

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Can playing Minecraft help your kids learn STEM techniques? Zaniac , the operator of an after-school, education program which uses Minecraft and robotics to teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to kids, said this week that it has opened up a location in Santa Monica--the first in a major expansion into Los Angeles. The franchised company, which has locations in Utah, Texas, Florida, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, said it plans to open up an additional 10 more locati

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How Much Should You Trust a Cloud Vendor?

Tech Zulu Event

Trust can be a fickle thing. As the saying goes, trust takes a lifetime to build but only a moment to ruin. In the business world, trust can certainly be hard to come by, especially when information and data valuable to the success of a company can easily be stolen or misplaced. This is the thought on the minds of many business leaders as they contemplate adopting the cloud for storage, computing power, and big data analysis.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Quality Systems Set Trizetto's Margolis As Chairman

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Irvine-based Quality Systems said early this morning that it has named Jeffrey H. Margolis as Chairman ofits board of directors, replacing founder Sheldon Razin, who had been Chairman of the company since it was founded in 1974. Razin is 77. Margolis is currently Chairman and CEO of Welltok, and was founder of enterprise healthcare software provider TriZetto.

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Seedling Rolls Out New, Interactive App For Kids

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Los Angeles-based Seedling , which develops a line of kids' activities products, has rolled out another, interactive application it calls Seedling Scavenger Bingo. Seedling said the new product combines both real world and digital play, blending physical products with digital game software. The new game revolves around real-world, scavenger hunts which are tracked on a digital bingo board.

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