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Anthony Batt Heads To Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst

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Katalyst said that Batt will lead the Katalyst team as President, and will help create content, recruit talent, and serve its brand clients. Batt co-founded BUZZmedia, originally known as Buzznet, out of his efforts photo blogging, scoring his first funding round back around 2006.

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Jetpack Grows In New York

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Jetpack develops advertising technology which is used to help publishers deliver advertising using HTML5, responsive and other tools. Jetpack's founders were previously at Spin Media/Buzznet. Carlin was most recently Director of Sales at Sizmek, and also has served at Innovid and VIdeology. READ MORE>>.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. Talk a bit about your team, and the story on how you got from Buzznet to Jetpack? What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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BUZZMEDIA Snags Editors From PopEater, TMZ

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According to BUZZMEDIA, it has hired on Mike Hess, formerly Managing Editor of AOL's entertainment news site PopEater, and Gillian Sheldon, former founding supervising producer at TMZ.com, to help build out a new "celebrity project" it will unveil in the fall.

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Three Southern California Firms Building Blog Empires

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BUZZMEDIA has a network of music and entertainment news related blogs, including Buzznet, Celebuzz, Absolute Punk, GoFugYourself, JustJared, Stereogum, TheSuperficial, WWTDD, SocialiteLife, and Idolator. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie.

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Interview with Kieve Huffman, Dather

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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. I helped launch Columbiahouse.com, which started my career path in a whole new way.

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