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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

TechCrunch LA

It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . alone in 2017 (not to mention the roughly 32 million consoles sold at the market’s peak in 2008), according data on the Statista website. . ” Bennett knows a thing or two about entertainment.

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Meet the 15 Eureka Park Startups Competing at CES Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

Oblend is an at-home, on-demand dispensary that gives people the ability to make their own aromatherapies, oils, vapes and more from legal herbal extracts and essential oils within minutes through their app. Bautiful Box will keep your pet entertained while at home and will train it too! Meet the Startups. Altopa (Seattle, WA).

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile. Many publishers have been wringing their hands over declining CPMs, shift from desktop to mobile, etc.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel.

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