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AUGUST 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Hulu , the online video streaming site, is apparently in efforts to file for an IPO, as a long line of Southern California firms heads towards the public markets. Tags: hulu merger acquisition exit media content hollywood video. No details of the potential IPO have been released. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Yammer , the business focused micromessaging site patterned after Twitter, and spun out of Hollywood-based genealogy site Geni , has been acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in cash, Microsoft confirmed Monday. Yammer, which was headed by David Sacks, will become part of the Microsoft Office Division.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based Bevvy (www.bevvy.com) launched on online site aimed at deals and offers for nightlife and nightclubs. Niall Donnelly: Bevvy is a private reservation site. We opened up our first on in Hollywood at the start of this year, which was a pretty big deal. It's the acquisition of the venues.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. ContentNext.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Hollywood management agency The Collective has acquired online video sharing site Metacafe , according to reports this morning from AllthingsD. The report did not uncover any financial details of the deal, but said The Collective is acquiring Metacafe for its infrastructure and sales team.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango said Friday that it has acquired M-GO , the on-demand, movie release service which is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JUNE 1, 2009

North Hollywood-based Disney Online announced today that the firm has completed its purchase of a number of web sites from Kaboose, including Kaboose.com, BabyZone.com, AmazingMoms.com, and ParentZone.com. Tags: disney kaboose merger acquisition content media. Disney had earlier said that the deal was worth approximately $18.4M.

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MAY 5, 2011

West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

CinemaNow originally offered up Hollywood movies, television shows, and music videos for rental and streaming from the Internet. That model was turned on its head by the emergence of sites like Hulu, YouTube, and many other free (or mostly free) video. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Placevine operates an online site where both marketers and concent producers can find opportunities for product placement and sponsorships. The firm was co-founded by Adam Erlebacher and Greg Neichin, who were both involved in Colloquois and GetActive Software, which both saw successful acquisitions. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. MOG, which was based in Berkeley, California, provided an online, streaming radio and music services which competes against such sites as Pandora and Slacker. Dre headphones, is acquiring online music service MOG , the two firms said over the weekend.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

CinemaNow originally offered up Hollywood movies, television shows, and music videos for rental and streaming from the Internet. That model was turned on its head by the emergence of sites like Hulu, YouTube, and many other free (or mostly free) video.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Are all those visitors going to your Joost site, or is that also spread out elsewhere? READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2011

The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. According to CBS Interactive, Jim Lanzone, co-founder and CEO of Clicker, will become President of CBS Interactive, and oversee all of CBS Interactive's operations worldwide.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the growing online music publisher, reported this morning that it has acquired four punk rock sites, which it will use to create a new punk music group called AbsoluteVoices. Punknews.org and PropertyOfZack, which it will join with its current AbsolutePunk punk rock news site under the AbsoluteVoices brand.

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JULY 9, 2015

Los Angeles-based Zealot Networks , the startup led by Danny Zappin which connects creators and influencers with brands, has acquired viral content site ViralNova. The two companies said that ViralNova is on track to have $35M in revenues in 2015, and is now seeing an average of 100 million monthly visits to its site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The studio owners of Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu are looking to sell the streaming site (again), according to rumors yesterday, as News Corporation and Walt Disney continue to struggle over what to do with the site.

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MAY 4, 2011

Home Entertainment Group said this morning that it is acquiring Flixster , the movie site which also runs Rotten Tomatoes. According to Warner, both sites will continue to operate independently. Burbank-based Warner Bros. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Hollywood Walk of Fame. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Foursquare. -A Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the publisher of entertainment related blogs and websites, said Friday that it has acquired The Frisky , an entertainment news, celebrity, and fashion site, from Turner Broadcasting Systems. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. It seems most venture investors have been very shy about investing in Hollywood content related ventures. Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. Zach James: The first thing after we got the money, is we redesigned our site.

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JULY 22, 2011

In the latest rumor swirling around Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu , a number of reports last night say that Apple Computer is now bidding for the firm. The report came from Bloomberg, which cited "two people with knowledge of the auction". So far, Hulu apparently has been shopped to Yahoo, AT&T, Microsoft, and Google.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based Hulu , the online television streaming site, is dropping its plans to pursue an IPO, according to a report today from from the WSJ. Hulu had been among the Southern California companies looking to file an IPO. Hulu had been rumored to be seeking an IPO since August, with an IPO filing expected before the end of the year.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Citing two people with "knowledge of the matter", Bloomberg said Providence had originally invested $100M in 2007, and will be paid $200M for its 10 percent share of the video streaming site. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp., and News Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. Online dating is all about acquisition, and maximizing the ROI for people coming in, and figuring out how that corresponds to their lifetime value. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. The reason is that like Hollywood these seem to require large up-front investments and seem to be hit driven.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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JUNE 21, 2011

A number of reports Tuesday afternoon says that Santa Monica-based streaming video site Hulu is up for sale. According to the Wall Street Journal, the firm was approached by an unsolicited offer to be acquired. Details on potential buyers has not be disclosed or uncovered. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Further details on the potential sale of Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu continue to emerge, with the firm reportedly retaining investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners to represent it in a sale. The names of the bankers was uncovered by the Los Angeles Times, citing "people familiar with the matter".

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JUNE 25, 2015

billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. That same team founded the popular site Buzznet, which became BuzzMedia and is now known as SpinMedia. Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. You just have to have an iron stomach to deal with the time it takes to get things done with Hollywood. We really believe in the market.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based The Wrap News , an online news site covering entertainment and media, said this week that it has acquire ItsontheGrid.com , an online, subscription service providing information on ongoing movie projects. Financial terms of the cash and stock deal were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

The owners of Los Angeles-based video site Hulu have dropped plans to sell the business, according to a statement released by Hulu late Thursday evening. According to News Corporation, Providence Equity Partners, The Walt Disney Company, and Hulu's management team, the firm has decided to terminate the Hulu sale process.

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MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Linda’s nickname is “the Lactation Consultant to the Stars” and she’s seen more A-list celebrities’ boobs than any director in Hollywood. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. AngelList: [link]. From: Toronto.

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