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Mighty Oak Entertainment Gets Investment

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Los Angeles- and Atlanta-based Mighty Oak Entertainment , which produces sports clips for traditional, digital, and streaming, has received an investment from former MGM Television President John Bryan and entrepreneur and KDOCTV (Los Angeles) owner Bert Ellis, Jr., Mighty Oak Entertainment is best known for its "Whacked Out Sports" clips.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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7 New Opportunities Based On Trends And Demographics

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million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. These cultures bring a whole new set of needs in food, entertainment, and lifestyle.

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Pluggedin Media Looks For Buyer

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The firm is backed by funding from Overbrook Entertainment, the entertainment firm run by Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz, and launched in April of last year. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. Tags: merger content acquisition pluggedin hdtv media. READ MORE>>.

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Pluggedin Media Looks For Buyer

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The firm is backed by funding from Overbrook Entertainment, the entertainment firm run by Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz, and launched in April of last year. O'Brien is one of the co-founders of Xdrive, which was sold to AOL in 2005. Tags: merger pluggedin acquisition content hdtv media. READ MORE>>.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

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It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). You mentioned you've pulled together a big virtual team to put together your content, both for JibJab and Storybots. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

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