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Digital LA: Branded Entertainment Panel Live!

Tech Zulu Event

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital. davidbeebe.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. An example of that is the UCLA flood.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications. He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Interview with Cramster.com

socalTECH

I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. He told us that he felt like homework help is the next big opportunity, and went to Yahoo Answers. Rob Angarita: When we talk about students, we're talking about college students and high school students. How did the company come about?

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Alex Quilici. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA?

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