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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

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Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. Online gaming has moved from the geeks to the mainstream.

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Content, Commerce, and Cosmetics: A Look At IPSY's Subscription Business

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Los Angeles�as the center of the entertainment industry�has begun to adopt a new role as the center of online video in recent years�and has also with the e-commerce industry and expertise here from the technology industry. Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them.

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Disney Taps Square's Dorsey For Board

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Disney said the move will give it a perspective into the "latest technologies and platforms" to reach more people, due to his influence in the social media and commerce space. twitter executive studio hollywood entertainment disney walt square' READ MORE>>.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. Online gaming has moved from the geeks to the mainstream.

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Neel Grover: How Indi Is Helping People Earn Money For Their Knowledge

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Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

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Fifty years of the internet

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Commercial policies gained influence, companies could charge for domain registration, and credit card encryption opened the door for e-commerce. Here one can list pervasive search engines, access to extensive information repositories, consumer aids, entertainment, education, connectivity among humans, etc.

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Interview with Jeremy Gocke, Fliptu

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With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.