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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web. What is Gamzee all about? Howard Marks: We started our business in April.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast

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Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. In 1991, Marks and a partner transformed ailing video game giant Activision into a $14B market cap video game industry leader.

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

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In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. And of course you have Hollywood.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Interview with Greg Borrud, Seismic Games

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All three of us have been working together for quite awhile, since Activision, fifteen or sixteen years ago. Because we're constantly connected to the web, we can change the game, literally, daily. Lots of what people like to do, is express themselves on the web. Greg, thanks for talking with us today.

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

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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