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Disney Taps Square's Dorsey For Board

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In a move to add some Silicon Valley cred to the company''s board, Burbank-based The Walt Disney Company has added Jack Dorsey, chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square Inc., Disney said that Dorsey will serve as an independent director of the company. as a member of its board of directors, Disney said this week.

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Disney Accelerator Demo Day: Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, More

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The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. ’s HQ in Burbank. As a result, Lewis will be our guest along with @seanmalarkey on our upcoming Jeremy’s Desktop (the online version of Tech News , powered by Make It Work) webinar entitled “ Social Media Crash Course.&#

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Decisive: Decoding The Emotions Behind Social Sharing

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We recently ran into a Disney Accelerator startup in Burbank, Decisive (https://decisive.is/), which has created software which is able to apply predictive analytics and software to do exactly those things, and more. We caught up with CEO and co-founder David Dundas to learn more about what the company is developing. What is Decisive?

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Once Upon a Time in Jorts

Eric Greenspan

My presentation began with a “moon&# themed, song-filled slideshow of the history of the company. The first slide was entitled, “ Once Upon a Time in Jorts &# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. ’s HQ in Burbank. As a result, Lewis will be our guest along with @seanmalarkey on our upcoming Jeremy’s Desktop (the online version of Tech News , powered by Make It Work) webinar entitled “ Social Media Crash Course.&#

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Straight Outta Twitter

Eric Greenspan

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. We met on Twitter, Seth David and I, during an event I hosted at Yahoo in Burbank. In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. The company was always run as a subsidiary of Nerd Enterprises, Inc.,

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