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Kazaa Sold To Altrinsic

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Sherman Oaks-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment , operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer digital music service, has sold its Kazaa peer to peer network and brand, according to New York-based Altrinsic. Altrinsic said it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kazaa's assets from Brilliant Digital Entertainment Thursday afternoon.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

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“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin can be less efficient because both networks are validated using “proof of work,” an algorithm that verifies the legitimacy of a transaction by solving energy-intensive math puzzles.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment.

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Interview with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, EQAL

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Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things. CBS has three prongs--the studio, network, and interactive.

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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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If you think about virtual worlds right now, there's a lot of hype around kids worlds and entertainment, much like there was a lot of hype around Second Life in the past. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has. The network of worlds we have is essentially a place of places.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. How did you connect with Tony?

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. We also have a television show, which is not connected to the network. How did the network come about? billion views.

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