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US DOJ Charges North Korean Programmer With 2014 Sony Attack

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Department of Justice has charged a North Korean programmer with coordinating the devastating, 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment , along with a whole host of other cyber-attacks across the world. ransomware attack, a major bank theft in Bangladesh, along with a long list of other crimes.

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Announcing the 2014 socalTECH 50: Southern California's Ones To Watch

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Philip Lelyveld , USC Entertainment Technology Center. 2014 dfr2014 event list founders startup socaltech socaltech50' Zack James and Rich Raddon , ZEFR (shared). Will Kassoy , AdColony. Ben Katz , CARD.com. Jonathan Kessler , Cargomatic. Ali Khoshgozaran , Tilofy. Nanxi Liu , Enplug. Tim McIntyre , StackIQ. Josh Meyers , Slickdeals.

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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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How Laudville Is Bringing Your Entertainment Life Together

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In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. What is Laudville?

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Google Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in July

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During an event in Los Angeles today, Google specifically positioned this region as ideal for the media and entertainment industry in the area. But as Google announced today , the new Los Angeles cloud region will go live in July, making it the company’s fifth region in the U.S. That’s not what Google is focusing on today, though.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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Vertical Networks Acquired By Whistle

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Santa Monica-based Vertical Networks , a "mobile-first" content studio which was backed by Snap , has been acquired by New York-based entertainment and sports media company Whistle. Whistle is venture backed by WndrCo, NBC Sports, Sky Sports, Liberty Global and TEGNA, and says it has raised more than $100M in total since launching in 2014.