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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Magnite says the combined companies would have a full year, 2020 non-GAAP net revenue of $350 million. The company says it is looking at "operating cost synergies" of more than $35M. Magnite is acquiring SpotX from RTL Group. Magnite is led by President and CEO Michael Barrett.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gaikai , the cloud-based game streaming service backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Limelight Networks and Intel Capital, said Thursday that it is powering a game site, "The Escapist". Gaikai said the deal is the first in the launch of an "Affiliate Network" for the company.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. What's the idea behind the ntro?

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APRIL 25, 2011

Dragon Age / Electronic Arts, Kevin Tancharoen / Mortal Kombat- Warner Bros Interactive and Veronica Belmont’s social media campaign for General Motors. Check-In, Networking and light appetizers. 9:30-10p Networking. George Ruiz, ICM, Head of New Media and SVP of Business Affairs, ICM. The Guild (Microsoft, etc.),

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APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. It's the quality of the team.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? That's a key change right there.

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JULY 13, 2013

Some of my friends who were forced to go into startup companies ended up working for these biotech firms that became huge, and they made a lot of money by not being able to get a job. And my specialty was computer networks. They mostly went to work for companies doing programming languages. It was all technical.

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