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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout. brb walking out.

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

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Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.

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Netflix, Hulu Test In-Hotel Streaming With Marriott

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Both Netflix , which has a substantial operation in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles-based Hulu are both considering an expansion into the hotel entertainment market, in a test with Marriott International , according to a report this morning. netflix hulu marriott streaming video television demand' READ MORE>>.

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VIZIO Adds Hulu Plus, BLOCKBUSTER On Demand

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Irvine-based VIZIO , which makes HDTV products, said today that it has added Hulu Plus , the premium subscription service of Los Angeles-based Hulu, as well as BLOCKBUSTER On Demand, to its connected television line. a month; BLOCKBUSTER On Demand offers up rentals from $2.99 and purchases from $5.99 to $19.99.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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in Los Angeles. While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up their fifth cloud region in the U.S. We open these doorways.”

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State of Content | Los Angeles

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The round will explore some of the hits and misses of 2011 and look at recent Content developments & initiatives with YouTube Premium Channels, HBO GO, Hulu Original Content, & Netflix On-Demand. ** TechZulu readers get a 35% discount by entering the promo code ‘ techzulu’ at checkout. **.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. That just doesn't happen.

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