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Creativebug Acquired By Jo-Ann Stores

socalTECH

Creativebug , the online educational video site for the arts and crafts market which was last owned by Otter Media , the joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores , the arts and crafts retailer. Creativebug had been acquired by Otter Media in 2014, for $10M. READ MORE>>.

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Snagging Pearson’s AR assets and $1 million in cash, GIGXR is ready for its close up

TechCrunch LA

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. The serial entrepreneur had been in discussions with Pearson for the better part of a year to acquire the company’s VR and AR assets.

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Enplug: Bringing Social Media To A Display Near You

socalTECH

What''s unique about it, it is stream live social media, and actually puts that social media content on the display right in front of you. Zach had built one of the top ten education apps in the App Store, and after they started talking, Zach also decided to drop out of college and join as a co-founder. How big is this market?

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Los Angeles’s Secret to Startup Success

Tech.Co

When Los Angeles, CA was listed as the fastest-growing tech startup region in 2014, many guesses were raised about the root cause of its success. s other startup advantages include: A long media history: Companies such as Netflix and Buzzfeed are based in L.A. Could it be the large number of new companies? Don’t stop with just one.

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Wearable World Labs Partners With Technicolor to Accelerate Wearable Tech & IOT Start­ups

Tech Zulu Event

A new partnership between Wearable World Labs , the world’s first accelerator solely focused on Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Wearable Things and Technicolor , a media and entertainment technology leader. Launched this year, Wearable World Labs in San Francisco is the first of 20 centers to be launched worldwide in 2014.

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Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Shines Spotlight on Emerging Tech Hubs

Xconomy

In the years since the tour’s inception in 2014, Case says he’s become “quite encouraged” by the momentum he sees building in the middle of the country. The story is still not well-understood by media and others on. However, he also says there is more work to be done. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Special Report 2069: Predicting the Internet’s Next 50 Years

Xconomy

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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