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lynda.com Hires Content VP

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Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which operates an online training and education site for computer skills, announced Thurday that it has added Michael Ninness as the firm's Vice President of Content. Ninness was formerly Lynda.com's Director of COntent from 2005 to 2007, and has also served at Microsoft and Extensis.

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Mighty Oak Entertainment Gets Investment

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Might Oak said its founder, O'Brien, previously was a development and content sales executives for Warner Bros., before leaving in 2005 to found Might Oak Entertainment. Mighty Oak Entertainment is best known for its "Whacked Out Sports" clips. READ MORE>>.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised). The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively.

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Frequency Inks Video News Deal With Newsy

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Financial details of the content licensing deal were not disclosed. Frequency aggregates and distributes video content to mobile and other devices. Harrison previously founded FasTV, and headed up iFILM, which he sold to Viacom back in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Verizon Digital Media Acquires Volicon

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Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider Verizon Digital Media Services --which is better known to locals as the former operations of EdgeCast--said it has agreed to acquire Volicon , a provider of video capture, archival, compliance monitoring and clip creation workflow for broadcasters. READ MORE>>.

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Bestcovery.com Rolls Out Web Widget

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Santa Monica-based Bestcovery.com , an online expert review and ranking site headed by former Pricegrabber.com co-founder and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani, said today that it has rolled out a new widget which will allow web publishers to display its content. Pourzanjani was CEO of Pricegrabber.com until its $485M purchase by Experian in 2005.

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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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According to Amazon.com, it is launching an effort to allow developers to create their own, active content on the electronic reader, including games, Internet-linked content, word games, and puzzles. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. READ MORE>>.