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

TechCrunch LA

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. 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.

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AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play

TechCrunch LA

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. You can sign up here.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That just doesn't happen.

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

socalTECH

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. That funding was geared towards development of our product. How did you two connect?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. for $565 million to Excite.