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Tongal Ramps Up Hiring

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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.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Blizzard has been one of the founders of e-sports, an created many of the early e-sports games, and Riot Games is well known for League of Legends.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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Watertower has been involved in a number of high visibility exits and fundings in recent months, including Riot Games (rumored to be $400M+), Machinima, and ExtendMedia. I think you know Riot Games, where we put together their first institutional money. Those are two big gaming companies.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros.,

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Twiistup 007: Date, Speakers, Early Bird Special

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Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. Rick Heitzmann. Click here to Register ).

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Brandon Beck – Riot Games. StarCraft 2 might be the most played eSport currently, but Riot Games’ “League of Legends” is garnering prize pools in the millions. They raised some money, stole some guys from Blizzard, and released the game for free. Thanks to our advertisers. The prize? $3

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. Thanks to our advertisers. The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6