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Activision Blizzard To Slash Almost 800 Employees

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Santa Monica-based game developer Activision Blizzard says it is slashing 8 percent of its staff, or nearly 800 employees, as a part of a restructuring effort at the company. The move comes even as Activions Blizzard reported record net revenues in 2018 of $7.50 bllion, up from the $7.02 billion it had in revenues for 2017.

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

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Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Individual clips will be posted soon. Gold Sponsor. .

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REACH Connected Future: Gaming Recap

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From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. This is of course, assuming we’re discussing console. In fact, Daniel reports, they just did an install at another Dave and Buster’s location in the Irvine area.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Individual clips will be posted soon. Gold Sponsor. .

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. And of course you have Hollywood.