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Lionsgate Taps OUYA Founder Uhrman As Streaming Media GM

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Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate said on Thursday that it has named Julie Uhrman to the position of Executive Vice President & General Manager of Lionsgate Over-The-Top (OTT) Ventures, the company's streaming media service. Uhrman also has served at IGN Entertainment and Vivendi Universal.

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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days.

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Snap Launches Multiplayer Gaming Effort

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Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , said on Thursday that it has launched a new offering called Snap Games , which will offer up real-time, multiplayer gaming to users of Snapchat.

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GotCast Powers Sony's The Tester Casting Call

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Santa Monica-based GotCast is again powering the online casting call for Season 3 of Sony Computer Entertainment's "The Tester" reality series. The series--geared around video game testing--has contestants competing for a production job in Sony's Santa Monica Studio and an un-announced title for the PlayStation 3.

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Demand Media Buys CoveritLive

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it has acquired CoveritLive , a developer of a live blogging platform used to provide real time commentary, reader polling, and questions and answers on live events. CoveritLive has been used on sites like People, TMZ, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and the Daily Beast.

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Interview with Nick Higgins, Joost

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Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. We started internationally, and built out our international platform first, and rolled it back into the U.S. Why the expansion here?

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

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Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought. Indi stands for individual.

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