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SoCal's Instagram Startups Duck Impact, As Users Rebel

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Instagram clarified its position on ownership of photos Tuesday, saying its intent was not to sell user photos, or use them in advertising. Munson did say that it's a logical move by Instagram towards Facebook's advertising model. READ MORE>>.

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LA Technology Scene: StartEngine Entrepreneurs Mix It Up With Mentors

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It's a warm summer night in Westwood and 35 entrepreneurs are mingling with a collection of the new SoCal silicon-set. The company's founders, Nanxi Liu , Alex Ross and David Zhu , are quick to point to the many venues they have ready and willing to utilize their platform.

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Digital Entertainment: Advertising, Distribution and the Consumer

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 -- Digital Entertainment: Advertising, Distribution and the Consumer. Santa Monica College and The City of Santa Monica bring together business leaders for an insightful discussion on Digital Entertainment. See [link] (more).

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Trends in Digital Distribution: Production, Distribution and Advertising

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 -- "Trends in Digital Distribution: Production, Distribution and Advertising" CommNexus. This event explores how production, distribution and advertising have evolved from past business models to support digital content distribution on new media platforms. See [link] (more).

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. What is Tradesparq? The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

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Mobile Marketing

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There's been a lot of excitement in the mobile advertising space lately as recent announcements from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, etc. The mobile phone is the perfect platform for marketers to engage consumers wherever they may be. In fact, Gartner Research predicts the mobile advertising industry to grow from $3.3B

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