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Burstly Snags Rovio Exec Responsible For Angry Birds Advertising

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Santa Monica-based mobile app monetization and testing developer Burstly has snagged away an executive from high profile mobile games maker Rovio. Rajamaki was previously head of advertising for Rovio Entertainment''s Angry Birds franchise, serving as Vice President of Advertising Operations. READ MORE>>.

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March Capital Backs Nifty Games In $3M Funding

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Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital is one of the lead investors in a new, video game publishing startup called Nifty Games , in a $3M funding round, announced on Tuesday by Nifty Games. He also was founder of Massive In-Game Advertising (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), among other firms.

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MGID: Move to Los Angeles Helped Drive Record Growth

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Santa Monica-based MGID , which provides native advertising, says its move from New York to Los Angeles earlier this year helped drive "dramatic growth" at the company. mgid native advertising exchange' MGID said it saw a 21.7 MGID said it saw a 21.7 MGID moved to Los Angeles in July. READ MORE>>.

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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

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Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education. Miso Media.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Interview with Nick Higgins, Joost

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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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Neel Grover: How Indi Is Helping People Earn Money For Their Knowledge

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Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We have four different ways people can make money.

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