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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The group is hosting an all night hackathon starting Friday, October 19th which will put up to fifty programmers against each other to create new web, mobile, or desktop apps on the theme of film and technology. ZEFR is the online media startup which runs MovieClips.com , and recently expanded into sports and other content.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com , the online media network run by Jay Penske, is being sued by The Gross Family Foundation, a New York-based charity, over its use of "FASHION ROCKS" to advertise and promote its own multimedia services. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in the New York Southern District Court (The Gross Family Foundation, Inc.

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MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Tyler Francois: urRadio is an all new, social media app, which allows you to host your own Internet radio station. Our CTO was the Senior Web Engineer at Yahoo Music, and helped launch many of its international platforms, and helped rebuild the original Yahoo Music and Messenger radio players. What is urRadio?

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JUNE 30, 2009

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media.

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MARCH 2, 2010

News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people There was some beautiful web sites that were built, but I know from my time as a talent agent, these guys were spending a lot of time and money on content, but not spending a lot of time on how to monetize it. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site.

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

If you look at media, and not just radio, advertisers want to get value. At the same time, media--or what we called media--which now includes traditional media, online media, mobile, product placement, etc. there are so many things called media which are vying for media buyer's attention.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

We caught up with CEO Gabe Gottlieb recently to understand better why the company thinks transparency is important--and to try to understand better the tangled web of online ads. We''re not buying and selling media, we''re helping people to understand what''s going on. What is Adomic? Gabe Gottlieb.

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APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. We rode the recession wave, as all people became bargain hunters.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience. One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. We were able to make a unique head model, based on a unique face model.

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MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? We work with studios to understand those early audiences, and give them feedback on social marketing and making their marketing more effective.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. Value is becoming the new thing, and the web gives the ability for people to share value and other sides to discovery value.

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