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Sophoi Acquired By Oracle

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Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday. Oracle said that Sophoi's products will become available as Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management. Sophoi was backed by Oracle which had funded the firm to the tune of $17.5M

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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Patrick Quigley: People often have the wrong perception of Vantage Media. However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team.

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

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There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out. One is the traditional buyer, the Microsofts, Oracles, Googles, and Ciscos of the world, with their cash. They are very acquisitive.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Strategic investors are looking to consolidate their positions : The top 6 buyers in tech & media account for 27% of all purchases. When you look at the likes of Cisco, HP and Oracle (note they bought Sun) it seems a return to this model.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

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DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Founded a series of successful startups resulting in IPOs and acquisitions. Plays an Advisory role to multiple startup companies in the media space. Millions of followers on Twitter.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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