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AdColony Acquired By Opera

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Los Angeles-based mobile video advertising firm AdColony has been acquird by Silicon Valley mobile ad company Opera , the two said Tuesday. Before AdColony, Kassoy had been at Activision Blizzard. video mobile acquisition merger opera adcolony' The deal is worth up to $350M. AdColony is led by Will Kassoy. READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. 12 major acquisitions this year putting it over 100 since 05. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. I think it's going to be the next great revolution in advertising. Finally, Google. That's huge.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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We're helping to build a new league that is forming around these professional teams, and working with publishers like Riot Games, Blizzard, Activision, and Valve to lock in broadcast stations, the ESPNs, the Twitches, and Foxes, and Turners to help create an ecosystem around this. There are some big, multi-million dollar brands in this.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. He was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997). Thanks to our advertisers. 13 comments.