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MARCH 8, 2011

Katalyst said that Batt will lead the Katalyst team as President, and will help create content, recruit talent, and serve its brand clients. The firm creates programming for television, film, and the web. Katalyst was founded in 2000 by Goldberg and Kutcher, and includes clients such as Gatorage, Levi's Nikon, and Intel.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , which operates a network of web sites focused on celebrities and pop culture, announced this morning that it has raised $12.5M Buzz Media said it now has more than 40 million people visiting its web sites every month. and will rename itself Buzz Media. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. Tags: buzzmedia plixi tweetphoto twitter sharing photo celebrity content publishing. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the venture-backed publisher of music content, information, and community sites, is getting some new competition this week from Berkeley-based MOG. According to MOG, it has launched a new "editorial hub" called the MOG Music network which will showcase content from a network of 1,300 music blog.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzz Media , the online network of celebrity-focused web sites, announced today that it has inked a deal with OK! Buzz Media--which was formerly known as BuzzNet--is a venture backed operator of a network of pop culture, celebrity, and music-focused web content properties and blogs.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. He was most recently General Manager at Buzznet, and before that was a Managing Director at AOL Music.

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