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MP3Tunes Files For Bankruptcy

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EMI sued MP3tunes in 2007, accusing the firm of violating its copyright. The bankruptcy-due-to-entertainment-studio-lawsuit is not an unfamiliar one for Robertson, whose most famous startup, MP3.com, com, was sued by just about every label out there before succumbing to bankruptcy.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. What’s So Cool About Coull? In 2007, Microsoft loudly proclaimed the creation of clickable video ads. Such embedded video ads are not new.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. What is Sidebar all about? By using our analytics platform, they learn about what consumers want. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

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As the catalyst for this collaborative fantasy epic, these authors would post twelve initial origin stories about their fictional universe, to which they owned the copyright. Within hours, fans confronted the authors in the Discord server with their concerns about the project. An emerging tech dystopia.

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Interview with Peter Hoskins, ManiaTV

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The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. Peter Hoskins: In 2007, we took a fantastic soundstage at Pico and Fairfax.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

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Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace.

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