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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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My most significant event of 2014 is definitely Silicon Beach Fest, the multi-day tech community fest, which just keeps getting bigger. Silicon Beach Fest 2014 attracted more than 2,000 attendees, with more than 350 speakers, of which more than one third were women. What was your biggest lesson learned this year?

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Demand Media Sees Steep Drop In Content Revenues, Cuts Staff

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media is continuing to see a steep drop in revenues from its content and media efforts, reporting Thursday afternoon that it had $15.9M in the same quarter in 2014. in revenues from its Content & Media segments, compared with $33.6M The company reported a total, Q3 revenue of $28.5M.

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Fandango Gobbles Up Cinepapaya

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Los Angeles-based online ticketing and movie service Fandango continues to be in an acquisitive move, and has acquired Latin American online movie ticketer Cinepapaya. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition follows an acquisition last year of Brazilian ticketing firm Ingresso.com.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

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That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014. Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform.

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Lawn Love Acquired By LawnStarter

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San Diego-based Lawn Love, an on-demand lawn and outdoor care company which is led by Jeremy Yamaguchi, has been acquired by Austin-based Lawn Starter, according to the companies this week. The company was founded in 2014. Financial terms of the cash-and-stock deal were not announced. in total funding. in total funding.

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Creativebug Acquired By Jo-Ann Stores

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Creativebug had been acquired by Otter Media in 2014, for $10M. Previously, Creativebug was part of Demand Media, which itself acquired Creativebug back in March of 2013.

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Rubicon Project Buys RTK.io

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Rubicon says that RTK's solutions are build on the same, open source framework as its own, Demand Manager product portfolio, Prebid. was based in New York City, and was founded in 2014; Rubicon said it will add RTK.io's "strong group of header bidding experts and Prebid developers" to its team.

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