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JUNE 11, 2018

Amazon , through its Amazon Studios arm, is hoping to revive its content production efforts in Los Angeles, with a new head of its operations here, the company told media last week from various entertainment publications.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Technology giant Microsoft has detailed its new Los Angeles production studio, officially announcing that it has created a new production studio headed by former CBS Network Television Entertainment president Nancy Tellem. Microsoft said the studio will develop interactive and linear content for Xbox and other devices.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2020

The company’s entertainment is designed to be interactive with live-streaming, geo-location, live chat, polling, choice-based narratives, 360 viewing, augmented reality, and click through e-commerce, the company said.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. Phoebe Scott: I started Laudville, because I consume a lot of entertainment of all kinds. What is Laudville?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Myspace , the online social entertainment site now owned by Specific Media, said this morning that it has named Roger Mincheff as President of Myspace Entertainment. Myspace said that Mincheff will help lead internal production and entertainment efforts, developing original programming and content for the site.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television provider Hulu is bolstering its original content efforts this Friday morning, saying it has named Beatrice Springborn as the company''s Head of Originals. Springborn joins the company from Storyline Entertainment, where she was head of television, in charge of the MTV series "Happyland".

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MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. Even if certain categories aren't predefined in the database, users still receive relevant product suggestions. Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure.

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JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based media brand Pocket.watch , which creates content for kids, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, led by Viacom, the company said today. Pocket.watch says it develops eerything from small-screen video to big-screen blockbusters, games, toys, and other products focused on kids.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Culver City-based M-GO (www.mgo.com) thinks so, with its own twist on providing content to consumers. I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO. John Batter: One of the first decisions we made, was about the type of content we wanted to offer.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

DGene, a content creation company which has a team in Los Angeles, but is based in San Jose, says it has raised $20M in a Series A funding. The company said it is building software "to expand creativity and redefine virtual production and immersive entertainment". The funding was led by Alibaba Group.

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JULY 9, 2010

The good news for content creators in Hollywood and elsewhere trying to make it on the Internet: YouTube , the video sharing site owned by Google, said today that it has just launched a new program which will invest five million dollars for new content partners. Tags: content hollywood youtube video sharing.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to Wave, it has launched a new, mulkti-channel virtual entertainment platform, specifically allowing artists to perform live for fans in online games, social networks, live-streaming channels, or entertainment networks.

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JULY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Whip Media Group , a developer of software used by the entertainment industry to manage content, said that Shout! is using its products to streamline and monetize their transactional digital sales, and to provide real-time performance data to partners. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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JULY 29, 2021

In a sign of growing concern over lagging vaccination rates driving a new surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States, Netflix said this week that it will now require actors and others on productions to be vaccinaed. The news apparently will make netflix the first Hollywood studio to put in place broad vaccination requirements.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Streaming entertainment provider Netflix is boosting its consumer products efforts out of its Los Angeles office, saying on Tuesday that it has tapped a Disney Parks veteran as its new global products head.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles�as the center of the entertainment industry�has begun to adopt a new role as the center of online video in recent years�and has also with the e-commerce industry and expertise here from the technology industry. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based Audio Up, a podcasting and audio entertainment production studio, has raised $12M in funding, led by SiriusXM, according to SiriusXM Holdings. The deal calls for Audio Up to produce content fro the SXM App, Pandora, and Stitcher, among other efforts.

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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 was also a founding member of the Academy Software Foundation , an open source foundation that focuses specifically on tools for the film industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. “What we saw as the problem is the content creation itself,” says Lee. The company was formed and financed with $6.3

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Microsoft is the latest big name, technology company which sees its future being defined in Hollywood, and is reportedly hiring a former CBS television executive to head up original video content development efforts here.

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JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops avatar creation technology for turning photos into animated, 3-D likenesses, said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new effort targeted training content creators on the firm's products. Tags: bigstage stage entertainment avatar content. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The company said it will use the funding to fund its growth strategy in the content, gaming, entertainment, and consumer products areas, including potential acquisitions. FaZe Clan says it expects to receive proceeds of approximately $291 million (including an estimated $118 million in PIPE proceeds) after the effort.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It looks like there's a new startup accelerator in town today: MediaCamp , an entertainment-focused startup acceleration program backed by Turner Broadcasting, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. According to Warner Bros., According to Warner Bros., READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. They’ll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment. Matt McMahon, Fox Digital Entertainment, VP Mobile.

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JULY 23, 2012

Agoura Hills-based THQ announced this morning that it has named Ron Moravek as its new Executive Vice President, Production. Moravek is the former co-founder and COO of Relic Entertainment, which he sold to THQ in 2004. He also served at Electronics Arts, Canada, and most recently was a senior advisor to security firm NuCaptcha.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

The entire premise of Playhouse is that we find it strangely entertaining to peruse home listings. We want to build a product for the next generation that wants to be mobile, video driven, exciting and fun.”. But before then, it would need to boost its content moderation capacities.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Beverly Hills-based OWNZONES Media Network , a technology and entertainment company which provides products for the motion picture, television and digital content creation industries, says it has named Rob Hopps as Chief Security Officer (CSO), and Senior Vice President, Platform Operations.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Monica has just gotten yet another boost in its bid to become the capital of Silicon Beach, as Microsoft said this week that it is opening up a new, 125-person strong entertainment studio in the city as part of an effort to create interactive content for the Xbox. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Burbank-based 3ality Digital is ramping its efforts in the 3D entertainment market, saying that it has inked a deal with digital entertainment distribution firm Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. on a number of 3D entertainment projects. Tags: 3ality digital movie content production.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company AEG said Tuesday that it has launched a new, in-house branded content division, AEG Studios , which will provide creation, production and development of original content for the company and its brand partners. The new division will be led by Raymond Leon Roker.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

On Friday, February 22, USC’s Business and Entertainment Association (BEA) is hosting its 4th annual E2: Evolution of Entertainment Conference at the Town & Gown Hall at the USC Campus. It’s focus is on the evolving changes in technology that have had an influential impact on the business of entertainment.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

product line, and set up its U.S. TiTAN says its product provide a "highly-encrypted" content platform which lets content owners upload and provide their content to consumers through a secure marketplace, all tied into a "smart home" device in the living room. headquarters in Los Angeles. TiTAN's U.S.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Fountain Valley-based computer gaming products maker HyperX , which is a division of Kingston Technology, said it has partnered with global e-sports entertainment firm Allied Esports , to obtain the naming rights for a new, e-sports areana based in Las Vegas at the Luxur Hotel & Casino.

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