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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. In LA tech, keep watch on our accelerators, coworking spaces, content creators, and startup CEOs over the next year. When's the next one?"

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Demand Media Raises 2012 Guidance On Registrar Growth

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, announced its first quarter 2012 results yesterday, and also raised its fiscal 2012 financial guidance. The firm was helped significantly in the quarter by growth in the firm's registrar business, which grew 17 percent year to year.

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Friday Tech Video Roundup for November 16th, 2012

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Introducing the PublishThis Content Cloud. An explanation of PublishThis and its content curation software. Los Angeles MiniTime debuted its service this week to help families find reviews and information for their family vacation. Phone Halo's WalletTrackr pitch video. Planning your family vacation with MiniTime.

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Moviepilot Hits Hiring Accelerator As Focus Shifts To LA

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According to Aaron Kelly, Director of Content and Community, the company is looking for writers, video producers, social media mavericks, marketeers and ultra passionate movie fans to help the company grow from what is just fifteen people at the moment in LA. moviepilot hiring movie content producer community' READ MORE>>.

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Hulu To Tap Forssell As Acting CEO

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According to Kilar, Forssell helped grow the company from 2 content partners and no revenue to over 450 content partners and approximately $700 million revenue in 2012. Kilar also said that Disney and News Corporation are still working on "forward-looking plans" with the site.

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EdgeCast Doubles Revenues, Tops 225 Employees

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Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

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Exploring the YouTube Ecosystem at YT Access 2012

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.” That was the understatement of the week, as I learned by attending YouTube’s Premium Partner conference, YouTube Access 2012. It’s a huge ecosystem–YouTube has 800 million users, and 72 hours of content is uploaded every MINUTE. And YouTube is doing everything it can to expand professional content.