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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Google said the cars have driven from Google's Mountain View campus to its Santa Monica office, on Hollywood Boulevard, and up and down the Pacific Coast Highway, among other areas, logging over 140,000 miles.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Tags: sophoi oracle merger acquisition software content hollywood intellectual property.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style According to Geni's Facebook page, the firm has been working on connecting the two services since November of 2007. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, and is headed by ex-Paypal co-founder David Sacks.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Citing two people with "knowledge of the matter", Bloomberg said Providence had originally invested $100M in 2007, and will be paid $200M for its 10 percent share of the video streaming site. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp., and News Corp.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

and had previously been President and CEO of ColorLink, a firm which was acquired by RealD in 2007. Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, said today that it has named Leo Bannon as its Executive Vice President, Global Operations. Bannon was most recently at Arisawa Manufacturing Co., READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. Fandango also said it had about 28 percent of its total tickets sold via mobile in May, which appears to be one of the growth areas for the company. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The old saying in Hollywood is that “It’s not what you know but whom you know” but the truth is always more deceptive and the tech industry is a lot more susceptible to this notion than you may think. I think the common denominator and the one word is ‘hustle’ . Same with Gaga.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Eric Golden, the firm's President and CEO, told us more about the company and its technology, and its fascinating beginnings from Hollywood's Steadicam. in 2007, then we did a Series B round of about $3.5M, led by a venture firm, Terrapin Partners. Tell us about your technology? We understand the firm is venture funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. The professor showed that there is a big increase in volume of buyers as a market peaks and a big increase in selling as the market is falling. I avoided much of this.

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JULY 13, 2009

I think because we're a Hollywood town, people haven't taken it all that seriously. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. There's lots of great tech talent, innovation, exits for companies, and big enough companies. We're taking it seriously. That as unhealthy.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

com pioneer Michael Robertson, which had offered pretty much the identical functionality back in 2007. The service is suprisingly close to AnywhereCD , the now defunct San Diego startup started by MP3.com

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MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. Coming from the world of academia, did you feel you had to overtly fight the Hollywood stereotype that business leaders have to be greedy and vindictive to win? . “In Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’

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AUGUST 3, 2012

John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. What is IBN Sports? Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world.

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MARCH 4, 2010

First, we're geographically spread out, with silos far away--in Pasadena, the Valley, Hollywood, etc. Jason Nazar: We've worked on the company for three years, and the site went live in November of 2007. I think one of the main reasons, is that LA has some unique challenges when it comes to a technology community.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

One of our guys does a lot of work with upcoming Hollywood film composers, you can see in our ‘ about ’ section, Gerrit Wunder, he does work at the moment for Hans Zimmerman and so on. Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. So we had to move actually from L.A

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Hubris might be an entertaining trait for an entrepreneur in a Hollywood movie. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Humility is the honey that will attract donors. As noted in Your Personal Pitch , people enjoy helping appreciative people who are in need. However, in the real world, hubris will only make your journey more difficult.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. The changing nature of content & the role of the narrative – A lot of Hollywood people say that the traditional “narrative&# of filmed entertainment will hold in the Internet meets TV world.

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