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Veoh's Shapiro Named CTO Of MySpace Music

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Los Angeles-based MySpace Music announced this morning that it has hired Dmitry Shapiro , who founded Veoh, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro was founder and CEo of Veoh Networks until its bankruptcy filing in February. Tags: veoh dmitry shapiro myspace executive. Shapiro also served as founder of Akonix Systems.

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GoMeta Gets $2M For Augmented Reality Universe Tools

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GoMeta develops a mobile platform--currently running on iOS--that allows developers create their own augmented reality apps and worlds. Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., READ MORE>>.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 However these unknown and unforeseen changes could lead to new problems for sites. 37:00-40:30). 40:30 –41:30).

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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