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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. The deal is worth up to $350M. AdColony is led by Will Kassoy. AdColony was venture backed by Insight Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day

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StartEngine's founders are Howard Marks, who co-founded Activision, and investor Paul Kessler. The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure.

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China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

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Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao. .

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Popbase helps YouTube stars build closer relationships with their fans

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While the primary goal is to help grow the fan-creator relationship, Popbase is also aimed at enabling YouTubers to monetize their brand through in-app purchases and advertising around content. Creators take a 60 percent cut of all revenue with the remainder going to Binary Bubbles, the Los Angeles-based startup behind the service.

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Break Media Taps Doyle, Subar as CFO, CTO

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Los Angeles-based Break Media , the online video and content publisher headed by Keith Richman, said today that it has tapped Andrew Doyle as its Chief Financial Officer, and David Subar as Chief Technology Officer. a game development firm that created titles for Activision, Interplay, and IBM. Subar also had founded Interna Ltd.,

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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. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. I think it's going to be the next great revolution in advertising. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. Marks is the co-founder of Activision, and Kessler a prolific investor in the region.

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