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Ozobot Boosts Executive Team

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Redondo Beach-based Ozobot , which develops educational robotics products, says that it has named Joby Otero as its Chief Product Officer, and Kim Salzer as Chief Marketing Officer. Both also had served at Activision. The company says it has already shipped half a million units of its "hybrid physical / digital STEAM platform".

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. How did you get into iPhone development?

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap

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The purpose of REACH is to explore, educate, and evaluate the future of tech, as well as experience new gadgets first hand. Indiegogo, “the world’s funding platform”, was also in attendance. Robin Kaminsky , founder of 1st Street Partners and former EVP of Activision Blizzard. Joshua Yguado , President of SGN.

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

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In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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