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Beats' Founders Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine In Court Over Headphone Design

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Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the founders of Beats Electronics , the onetime Santa Monica headphone-and-music-service, are in the midst of a lqsuit--and likely, a jury decision--over a lawsuit which claims Dr. Dre and Iovine owes royalties to a businessman work worked with the company back in 2005 and 2006.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. I was doing that until 1995.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI Think the new products are the only big things happening for Apple today?