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Ze Frank Games Acquired By Buzzfeed

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Ze Frank Games , the Los Angeles startup led by web video's Ze Frank , has been acquired by BuzzFeed , a social news publisher, the firm said Friday. According to BuzzFeed, Ze Frank has joined the company to build a team of video producers in Los Angeles, setting up a studio to create content native to the social web.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

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Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze. Buzzfeed reports that Katze is still drawing his UW salary, but his lab has been shut down. Analysts wondered if the Tesaro news would push Medivation’s acquisition price higher.

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

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This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.