socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. We also are dong the Twilight premiere from LA.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Entertainment has changed. A new startup is seizing on an opportunity to help up-and-coming online entertainers take a leaf out of that book and grow their relationships with fans. Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- For our next Digital Drinks, we're heading to Hollywood hot spot Les Deux! Digital LA organizes mixers for professionals in online entertainment, marketing, and advertising. Disney, WB, NBC, EA, Vivendi Games, Napster, and other entertainment, studios, ad agencies, and tech companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tongal , the crowdsourced, marketing and advertising content firm led by Rob Salvatore, has been ramping up hiring, saying today that it has added a significant number of people this month--including three executives to its senior leadership team. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The convergence of the Internet and the entertainment business has made Los Angeles a hotbed of activity in the online entertainment industry, attracting companies from all over the country interested in connecting Hollywood with the Internet. For those not familiar with ManiaTV, what does your company do?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. In 2012 over $3.2

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The video was just one of a number of ads filmed in the Los Angeles area for the Super Bowl, which is not unusual as its center for the entertainment and advertising industry. However, it does illustrate the increasing influence of technology and online media on entertainment, and how much the two worlds are colliding.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Brud , the actual company behind one of Instagram’s most popular virtual influencers (it’s a thing), has raised millions of dollars from Silicon Valley investors because this is 2018 and everything is awful. Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. It worked. .

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. These fans have a personal relationship with the stars unlike traditional Hollywood. This year they were accompanied by large companies such as Kia, YouTube, Bravo, Dolby, Intel and Taco Bell.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! Advertising : Agencies rock digital, TBA.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." margins offered by YouTube, MCNs must drive fans to purchase merchandise, experience videos on wholly owned (non-YouTube) sites and directly negotiate sponsorships with advertisers, rather than solely relying on YouTube''s ad network. Never heard of VidCon? Think "Consumer Electronics Show meets E! Fighting Nerds.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. Nick Higgins: Adconion was founded six years ago as an advertising network. First, describe what Joost's business is nowadays?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We spoke with Michael Tringe , one of the startup's co-founders, to learn more about what the company is getting set to launch. We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. What is CreatorUp all about?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. How did you get from working on mobile to online dating?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

A Bay area developer of social entertainment applications for Facebook, Milyoni , said Friday that it has scored $11M in a funding round, in part to open up an office in Los Angeles. The company said it currently has fifteen studio partnerships and "dozens" in the pipeline. Milyoni also said it will be opening up a New York office.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next. How did the company come about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

digiday:APPS * December 10th * The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Nowhere else can you find the top app experts converging with the biggest names in advertising and marketing. To enter to win a ticket to digiday:APPS, send your name, title, company, city, and email address to: info@socaltech.com with the subject "digiday tickets".

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. Philosophically, we''re not wedded to one company or platform, and will go where the audience is, which just happens to be on YouTube right now. How did the network come about? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. Why Africa in terms of why did we set the company up there? We can’t disclose revenue as we are a private company. How does it work? Profitable?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. James Citron: We started the company a little over two years ago. We're still an early stage company, but we've formalized some big partnerships, including most of the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Presenter: Scott A. But does every brand need an app?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Luckily, we find companies like Liquid Notes who are looking to re-introduce some depth and counteract this trend. One of our guys does a lot of work with upcoming Hollywood film composers, you can see in our ‘ about ’ section, Gerrit Wunder, he does work at the moment for Hans Zimmerman and so on. So we had to move actually from L.A

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. Entertainment. A few months later we did a party on The London’s rooftop (in West Hollywood) for over 500 people. Is the Three Day Rule your first company? I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. While at E!,

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. magazine and the LA Business Journal.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity. . Advertise and get noticed with us!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. So is Herb a Genius?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. Smart companies will figure this out early.

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