socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The company said prior CFO Peter F. Veritone did not say where Collins is departing to, but did praise his work in taking the company from a start-up company to its public status. Zemetra as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer as part of a "planned transition". READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2013

Southwest Airlines and satellite television provider DISH said today that they will begin offering free, live TV and on-demand TV access to Southwest Airlines customers. The new service comes thanks to a local company, Westlake Village-based Row 44 , which offers up in-flight entertainment and connectity systems. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen announced plans to launch its own, subscription video-on-demand service on Wednesday, with plans to show both its own original and third party content. Fullscreen was acquired by Chernin Group and AT&T in September of 2014, and since then has been busy buying up other, online video and streaming companies.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. I'm also an entertainment and music writer.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2020

The company did not say why it decided to remove the prior limits, however, the company provides both commercial in-flight Internet as well as business in-flight Internet through those same satellites, in addition to running an at-home satellite broadband serviec, WildBlue. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

And if you work in the entertainment industry, you have Stage 32. by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. In the past year alone the company has amassed over 1k hours of educational content and generated over $1 million.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Sony Pictures Entertainment/Imageworks wasn’t a founding member but joined a few months after the foundation got off the ground. Google worked with the company to open source the system, which Google and Imageworks have scaled to up to 150,000 cores.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Santa Monica-based TV Time , a developer of an app which lets users report information about their engagement with TVs and movies, has acquired New York City-based Mediamorph , according to the two companies. Mediamorph is a provider of entertainment content distribution and tracking services.

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , a provider of advertising services and technology for the online radio streaming, digital audio and podcasting markets, has acquired Omny Studio , a developer of a podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The company said the app includes both content created in-house at Digital Domain, as well as works from its industry partners, including animation, short films, and documentaries plus live and video on demand content from musical, political and entertainment events.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, SpotOn said it has closed on $300 million in Series E financing that values the company at $3.15 Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both the Series D and E rounds for the company, which says it has seen 100% growth year over year and a tripling in revenue over the past 18 months. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2017

That gold farming startup, Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), was founded by prominent Los Angeles investor Brock Pierce. The back end technology for Breitbart--blamed for driving the rise of the "alt right" , and arguably leading to the election of Donald Trump-- was originally built by veterans of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Are you one of the companies in Los Angeles that just doesn't have enough parking for your employees? One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In our business lives we’re having to deal with decisions that could have lasting impacts on our companies without any compass to guide us in the direction we’re heading . He enacted a program to proactively offer payment holidays to customers in obviously “hit” industries like travel & entertainment. Empathy can also be financial.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based health startup Heal (www.getheal.com") has come up with its solution to that problem--a smartphone app driven service, which lets you schedule an on-demand, in-home visit with a doctor, who makes a housecall in less than 60 minutes. We see you actually started this company with a new baby--has that been a challenge?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s another indicator that the Los Angeles technology ecosystem is coming of age, but also a sign that March’s core investment strategies — to invest in companies applying artificial intelligence to business use cases and investing in the next wave transforming computing infrastructure — are paying off.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to Foursquare, the new office will help it meet explosion in demand, in part due to local local automotive, entertainment, CPG and QSR customers. The company said that Lindsay Aston, Matt Bontaites and Karen Lurry will lead the new office.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is aiming to boost digital streaming and downloading of its content, through a new program the firm announced this morning. The entertainment firm, which is a subsidairy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/News Corp.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The Los Angeles area is fast becoming the content hub for online video site YouTube , a position that takes advantage of both the LA region's long history in the entertainment business, and the rise of a slew of startups producing content specifically aimed at the YouTube audience. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology. Depending on the throughput for a location, how many people per hour, we can scale the attraction to meet the demand.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

The team -- made up of veterans from local, Silicon Beach technology companies -- said it is developing Club Caveman , a mobile app that combines movie-quality animation with all the interactivity of an iPad or iPhone. and Demand Media.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

A report today from Bloomberg says that Amazon.com is planning to release its own, set-top TV box later this year, which will bring the company''s streaming video services directly to living rooms. The new set-top box looks to fulfill a role for video that the company''s Kindle e-readers do for books.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The video was just one of a number of ads filmed in the Los Angeles area for the Super Bowl, which is not unusual as its center for the entertainment and advertising industry. However, it does illustrate the increasing influence of technology and online media on entertainment, and how much the two worlds are colliding.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. ” .

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2011

Internap cited "explosive growth" and demand from Los Angeles entertainment, aerospace, technology, petroleum and finance companies, which it says has outstripped limited data center supply here. Internap's new data cener is near the Los Angeles International Airport, and is 55,000 square feet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. In 2012 over $3.2

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

It’s one of several companies (many based in Los Angeles) that are turning the city into a hub for anyone looking to experience the thrill of immersive gaming. For Survios and other companies that have placed multi-million dollar bets on the viability of virtual reality, the move to location-based gaming isn’t a matter of choice.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

Known for its entertainment scene which blossomed in the early nineteen hundreds, LA also has some of the best schools in the country in UCLA and USC. The event will offer a cocktail event atmosphere for tech enthusiasts a place to connect with the local tech companies, entrepreneurs and more established LA companies.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. The same cannot be said regarding the involvement of an entertainment or sports star. A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

If you want to manage a hyper-growth company, start with a great product. That is, a company that focuses all functions on the product. Great companies master this, average companies grow beyond one product, and those who lose sight of it fail. Here’s how. The best product wins. It’s a continuous cycle.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. I like events.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. Image Credits: Genies.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2012

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years and continue to experience.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2009

According to Equinix, the expansion of its colocation and network exchange services here is a result of demand from entertainment and digital media companies. Colocation provider Equinix announced today that it has opened up a new, $95M data center located in El Segundo, the firm's fourth in the L.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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