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MAY 2, 2011

The web site of San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment , the developer of massively multiplayer online games, was shut down today, along with Station.com, another Sony site, due to continued issues with hacking of the firm's systems.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

Like many of you I read the Is Web Summit a Scam article making the rounds this week. I have attended Web Summits three times – it is not a scam. I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. That’s why so many people come to DreamForce and so many come to Web Summit.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

A trio of United Talent Agency execs said Friday that they have launched a new, media company focused on the intersection of Internet and entertainment. The firm said it will work with creative talent to "produce television formats with a web sensibility" and also help develop digital platforms into TV and digital projects.

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MAY 3, 2011

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has tallied the number of accounts which have been compromised by hackers on the firm's online game service, saying that it has found that personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2011

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment , the developer of massively multiplayer online games, has provided details of the intrusion on the firm's systems, saying that hackers may have stolen its customer information. The revelation follows last week's hacking of Sony's PlayStation Network and other services.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has rolled out a new technology for its popular EverQuest II online game, which allows users to control their avatars' faces and change their voices, as part of a deal with Santa Monica-based Image Metrics.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. The search engine said one of the biggest investments is in entertainment, particularly navigating and finding what you are looking for from content on the web.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

A new, free-streaming service, SPORTS.TV, has been launched by Allen Media Group, which said today its new app-based consumer video streaming service is free, and aggregates sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcast television stations.

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MAY 22, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Citrix said this morning that it has launched a new, multimedia webcasting service aimed at large scale web events. The company said it is looking to target the movie, music, and entertainment market, schools and universities, community town halls, and more with the new product.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 -- Tubefilter's Hollywood Web Television Meetup brings together the most dynamic group of professionals in the online entertainment industry. This month we're screening web series submitted by YOU - members of the community! See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009 -- Hollywood Web Television Meetup. Tubefilter's Hollywood Web Television Meetup brings together the most dynamic group of professionals in the online entertainment industry.This month's featured speakers are Tosca Musk and Jeff McPherson, creators of Tiki Bar TV. See [link] (more).

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JULY 10, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009 -- Tubefilter's Hollywood Web Television Meetup brings together the most dynamic group of professionals in the online entertainment industry. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. They’ll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment. Matt McMahon, Fox Digital Entertainment, VP Mobile. Originals is Yahoo!’s

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

During The Future of Wearable Entertainment and Hollywood, it will be discussed how augmented reality inspired by movies become a reality for all of us. The Future of Wearable Music will be a discussion on how wearables can change our music experience from entertaining to healing. Mar Yvette – Lifestyle Reporter, Good Day LA Fox 11.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster , which is the biggest provider of online ticket sales services for sports, entertainment, and other events, said today that it has launched a beta of a new, interactive seat mapping tool. The new, Web 2.0-style

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last night we had an amazing group of panelist for the Web TV Workshop Pro-Panel series. They went over and touched on all the aspects that you would need to get your web series up and running. Topics such as branding, the importance of attending film festivals, when to go. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

On Monday November 1, 2010 TechZulu will present Web TV Workshop Pro-Panel Series live at 9pm PST. Tags: Arts & Entertainment Business Development New Media Social Media Video Adam Chapnick Alec Distribber IndieGoGo McBeard Media McNayre Mighty Fresh Richard Frias Web TV Workshop. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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MAY 9, 2013

Yekra says it is a digital entertainment distributor connected with an affiliate marketing system. Yekra says its system helps match content to viewers by genre, by digitally distributing entertainment through different web sites, blogs, social networks, and other destinations. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

MySpace said today that it has launched a new web reality show with reality entertainment producer Endemol, and separately, has launched a promotion along with Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Media linked to the upcoming Presidential Inauguration.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Investors, startups, Internet and web enable ventures, games, web services, mobile, apps, Internet enabled services, platforms, consumer electronics, software, hardware, entertainment and media, digital media, broadband and web services, entertainment,, finance, life science, enterprise, clean tech.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company--led by longtime cloud and hosting services veteran Simon Anderson--offers up managed services and consulting for cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. According to the newly formed company, it completed all three of those mergers earlier in 2018, and now has a customer base of 175 enterprises.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Social Gaming Network ( SGN ) and Fox Digital Entertainment teamed up for the recent release of a new game called The Book of Life: Sugar Smash. The game is based on Fox Digital Entertainment’s new computer animated film, The Book of Life , and launched for the iOS with an Android and Facebook version in the works.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The firm--which is currently being revamped by CEO Michael Jones into a new, entertainment focused portal--said the updated site creates the "best experience for Myspace mobile web users". Myspace said in October it would refocus itself as a "social entertainment destination" focused on Gen Y. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2014

headquarters to Los Angeles, to be closer to its sports, entertainment and lifestyle clients. The native advertising company--which helps place native ads on publisher web sites--was previously headquartered in New York. MGID , a provider of native advertising services and technology, said Tuesday that it is moving its U.S.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Sherman Oaks-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment , operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer digital music service, has sold its Kazaa peer to peer network and brand, according to New York-based Altrinsic. Altrinsic said it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kazaa's assets from Brilliant Digital Entertainment Thursday afternoon.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. And the site is growing, it now includes video content made by brands you may recognize from places that you visit elsewhere on the web, like the Popsugar entertainment news brand.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. Moviepilot set up shop in LA in 2012 , due to the entertainment industry''s base here. The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. Financial details of the effort were not announced. Financial details of the effort were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Lim was most recently SVP of Product Engineering at Sony Network Entertainment International, heading up that company''s team which provided client and service engineering for the PlayStation Store on the web, PS3 and PS4. He also served at Microsoft, leading development on Xbox Live, the Xbox 360 operating system, and Kinect.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. As a studio, we are building entertainment titles that capture that spirit. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu?

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JUNE 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M Hitfix focuses on news, interviews and commentary on all aspects of entertainment. Tags: hitfix venture capital online news entertainment content hollywood yuri pikover. in Hitfix, led by investor Yuri Pikover.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

The company said Thursday that it has released technology which help employers cut down on employees watching time-wasting viral videos and entertainment--while still allowing those employees to access other, useful content on sites like YouTube, Facebook, and other social sites. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2016

Los Angeles-based Stratalux , a provider of cloud-based, managed services for Amazon Web Services (AWS), said it has acquired Tojo Media , a company which specializes in building software for media and entertainment clients to be used in the Amazon AWS public cloud. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2013

Online viral news and media site BuzzFeed is further expanding its operations in the Los Angeles area, and has set up a "social studio" in Los Angeles to help "influencers, thinkers and celebrities" to create videos for the social web. buzzfeed entertainment content jobs news employment social video youtube' READ MORE>>.

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