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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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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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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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MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. socalTECH readers.

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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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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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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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MARCH 6, 2009

The funding had been disclosed earlier this week, but not confirmed by the company until today. RazorGator operates a service which helps sports and entertainment fans get access to high-demand events. According to RazorGator, it will use the new round of funding for "aggressive expansion" of its ticketing service. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 27, 2010

Is this meant as a personal tool, or a corporate tool--it looks like you've got a number of entertainment clients adopting your tool? Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media. The reception has been phenomenal. What's your background, and how did you start Dather?

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content. They were investors in Buy.com, and I became an operating partner for a few years for various companies. I left after a few years to launch and run Indi.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

The companies said that nominees for the Eventful 2012 Fans' Choice Award will come ia a combination of Billboard's Boxscore chart and Eventful's fan Demands; those awards will be presented in New York in November. Eventful is headed by Jordan Glazier; the firm's site is used by consumers to find local events and concerts.

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MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases.

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JUNE 2, 2014

There are several new things happening, including the maker movement, crowdfunding, and the democratization of innovation, which will mean more startups and more demand for manufacturing. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about?

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MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded?

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APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Those are two big gaming companies.

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