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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based 3BLACKDOT --founded by Machina Vets Angelo Pullen, Luke Stepleton, Adam Montoya, and Tom Cassell--said Tuesday that it has snagged another Machinima vet, Marwan Abderrazzaq, to head up game development at the company. The company said that he worked with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Payoff.com , the online service which is using gamification to help consumers pay off credit cards and save for goals, said Monday that Pandemic Studios co-founder Josh Resnick has joined the company's board of directors. The Los Angeles company, which is run by Scott Saunders, said that Resnick is one of the company's seed investors.

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JULY 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based Buffalo Studios , a social gaming developer founded by former Electronic Arts (EA) executives, said today that it has released its first, mobile game, for Apple iOS. The timed bingo game is free.

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MAY 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fans.lu , a developer of an e-commerce storefront to help game companies sell merchandise such as shirts, hats, posters, and more directly to their gamer fans, said over the weekend that it has partnered with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

Computer game maker Activision Blizzard is apparently cutting jobs in El Segundo and Los Angeles, according to a filing with the California Employment Development Department. California requires companies to give employees at least 60 day notice of mass layoffs.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Think you need to find a venture capitalist or angel investor to help you fund your great new idea for a videogame? inXile raised almost $3M in funding for its last, crowd-sourced videogame, Wasteland 2; the team helped create the video game Wastland for Electronic Arts back in 1988. Think again.

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JUNE 24, 2013

In its post, giving a number of its reasons for the investment, IVP said that "We Love LA", citing the success of LA''s JAMDAT Mobile , the mobile gaming firm which went public and was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts--which was founded by Mitch Lasky, who sits on Snapchat''s board and is a partner at Benchmark.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based cloud-based game streaming service Gaikai has bolstered its executive staff, saying today that it has named Robert Stevenson as Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment, and Tim Wilson as Executive Vice President, Strategic Relationships.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gaikai , the cloud-based game streaming service backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Limelight Networks and Intel Capital, said Thursday that it is powering a game site, "The Escapist". Gaikai said the deal is the first in the launch of an "Affiliate Network" for the company.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based cloud-based videogame streaming firm Gaikai said Thursday that it has inked a multi-year, licensing deal with Electronic Arts. The games included in the deal include The Sims, The Battlefield: Bad Company Series, Dragon Age Series, Mass Effect Series, Medal of Honor and Need for Speed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the online advertising firm headed by Todd Tappin, has bolstered its exec team today, saying it has named three senior executives at the company. Lonigro was perviously at Blue Noodle, and also had been at Live Gamer, Electronic Art's Pogocom, along with IAC and GeoCities.com.

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JULY 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Titan Gaming , the online gaming technology firm backed by the who's who of Southern California's angel investors, said today that it has added EA's Keith McCurdy and Affinity Media's Brock Pierce to its board, as well as appointed a number of executives. On the executive side, Titan said it has hired David D.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2009

With all of the major console and PC video game companies in Los Angeles (Electronic Arts, Activision, THQ, Blizzard), it only makes sense to discuss how more and more games are bringing in aspects of social media to enhance game play. Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- Games Go Social. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 19, 2010

The company said it is hiring project managers, engineers, and technical leads in the area of software and quality assurance and database administrators. In fact, the firm even opened up a Los Angeles office in May in the Electronic Arts building in Playa Vista, hoping to tap into the talent base on LA's west side.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its retail and lifestyle empire through subscription boxes, video… and even an augmented reality app. Last year the company crossed $200 million in revenue and managed to net over 1 million subscribers for the service.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. Jam City is coming off of a strong year of company growth. And the company isn’t the only mobile games studio making moves.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based MarketShare Partners , a provider of marketing analytics software said Wednesday afternoon that it has scored an investment round from Elevation Partners. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. According to MarketShare Partners, Elevation made a minority equity investment in the firm.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Los Angeles game development studio Jam City is setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. Now, the company has expanded through licensing deals with Harry Potter, Family Guy, Marvel and now Disney. Jam City has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Bogota and Buenos Aires.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Apple has announced a major expansion that will see it open a new campus in North Austin and open new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles as it bids to increase its workforce in the U.S. The firm said it intends also to significantly expand its presence in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 ” The unicorn gaming company has amassed increasingly larger rounds over the past three years on a nearly annual basis. .

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. What's the idea behind the ntro?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Some of my friends who were forced to go into startup companies ended up working for these biotech firms that became huge, and they made a lot of money by not being able to get a job. They mostly went to work for companies doing programming languages. I started the company for all the wrong reasons. I had this path to choose.

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