Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based online and mobile movie ticketing provider Fandango announced this morning that it has signed on three new theater chains--bringing it roughly 85 percent of the nation''s theaters which have online and mobile ticketing. Financial impact of the move was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

What does the world have in store for the mobile games market, and how do mobile games developers look at the world? Tell us about Mobile Deluxe and the types of games you develop? Josh Hartwell: We do premium casual games for mobile devices. Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.), in an open Forum at UCLA. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Fandango said the move will give Internet users access to nearly 20,000 screens across the country. The firms said the deal includes both Internet and mobile access to Yahoo! Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fandango won the deal over rival MovieTickets.com. READ MORE>>.

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Fandango Yahoo Screening Los Angeles 217

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. One of the first companies to see the potential for a mobile application specifically targeted at the enterprise was Roambi (www.roambi.com), which is based in Solana Beach.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

Have you every clicked on a mobile ad on your iPhone or Android phone, and found that the ad you clicked into wasn't usable on your mobile phone? Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. We're creating really good looking, really easy to use, really effective mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

me , a developer of mobile, interactive applications for the television and entertainment market, announced today that it has linked with Caesars Interactive Entertainment , to produce an application for the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The firm said it has created a "second-screen" experience for the WSOP telecasts on ESPN.

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Beverly Hills Screening Entertainment Mobile 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ReachSite helps provide search engine optimization, content optimization, and lead capture for companies, to help companies convert visitors into customers. That new service also has pre-negotiated prices, and the vendors are pre-screened and background checked. READ MORE>>.

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ReachLocal Woodland Hills Search Engine Optimization Services 178

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. The problem with the “long tail” content is that only the platform provider (ie YouTube) makes money. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. think Apple.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. Don't bet on any one platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Tags: jacked roundbox merger acquisition television content software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. They also had much experience before that.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

The effort will award badges for checking into pizza parlors, banks, food trucks, screenings, and movie theater openings. Foursquare offers up a mobile check-in service, where users check into retail locations to earn virtual badges and awards. Financial details of the arrangement were not announced.

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Culver City Screening Entertainment Mobile 173

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Children that have iPads, and a need for great content to interact with on those iPads that meet the tough standards of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The criteria for this JibJab dad approved content is that it must be fun, engaging, with music that doesn’t suck after the 3 rd play, and also promotes learning. Gregg Spiridellis pondered.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. Same with CreatorUp.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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Companies Company Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

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: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. Is it a challenge to cover so much?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2010

Seidenberg, who leads the nation's largest mobile, broadband and telecommunications company, will discuss how the network of 2020 will deliver personalized content to you when you want it and where you want it. Will the world of "broadcast push" networks evolve into a world of "subscriber pull" networks? Email gretchen.parker@usc.edu.

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USC Screening Content Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2012

After its January launch of its player, a tiny wireless USB Roku plug in Streaming Stick™, Roku in partnership with 3M today, unveiled a first of its kind Streaming Projector running on the Roku Streaming Stick, changing big screen forever. Bringing Back Big-Screen. 600 Channels On 120 Inches & Long Battery Life. Canada, U.K.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Culver City-based Fourth Wall Studios , a developer of interactive content backed by LA billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, has laid off the majority of its staff, and stopped production, according to a report from the LA Times. The report said between 25 and 30 employees, out of approximately 40, were laid off from the firm on Monday.

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Culver City Product Content Report 138

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2016

Burbank-based Disney launched a new, mobile messaging service this week called Disney Mix , aimed at kids and families, which lets users send messages back and forth, send stickers, play games, and more using Disney characters. Disney's new entry into the social messaging area, which is free, launched onto iTunes and Google Play.

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Burbank Snapchat Screening Content 100

socalTECH

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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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 31, 2010

The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers like never before. Does the key to success lie in sought-after content or powerful new tools or both?

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Media Enterprise Forum CalTech Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Children that have iPads, and a need for great content to interact with on those iPads that meet the tough standards of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The criteria for this JibJab dad approved content is that it must be fun, engaging, with music that doesn’t suck after the 3 rd play, and also promotes learning. Gregg Spiridellis pondered.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Basically, we're a kids content publisher. The only problem was, the only content out there were things like video games, movies, and things like that. The convenience of getting to that content was causing me to provide her with that content, even though it was not my first choice. We've reinvented storytelling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2018

Santa Monica-based mobile movie ticketing platform Atom Tickets said this week that it it expanding its platform to the independent theater market. Screens at the Continent), Nexus Cinema Dining, Taylor Theatres, and Empire Cinemas to its network of screens.

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Santa Monica Screening Platform Mobile 100

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile ticketing firm Atom Tickets said this morning that it is teaming up with Paramount Pictures and Participant Media, to offer up its users a chance to see the new Al Gore film, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power", at special public screenings.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content. So much so, that eMarketer forecasts 51.2

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Not just a new film, “The Cosmonaut” is a labor of love four years in the making, crowdsourced and created with a plan to test the boundaries of transmedia content distribution worldwide. Transmedia elements in the works include alternate reality games (ARG), mobile apps, webisodes and whatever else the fans come up with.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based mobile entertainment and gaming developer Jam City said today that it is getting behind an effort to encourage its users to register to vote in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, through a joint effort with nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization When We All Vote.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

PortalOne , which is building an immersive gaming platform that describes itself as hybrid in more ways than one — it mixes games with a game show/talk show format, and it’s designed to work across various devices from mobile through to consoles and VR headsets — has picked up $60 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here. inch full HD (1080p) screen and HTC Sense innovations. HTC BlinkFeed provides customized content and real-time updates streamed live on your home screen. A gorgeous day to talk tech while enjoying some of Hollywood’s premiere theme park attractions.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The screen gets really hot as its pressed up to your cheek and so I find myself just putting my ear up to the speaker. So grin and bear it by keeping your cheek on the hot screen? Well, that might trigger unwanted clicking on your home screen too. That being said, the Samsung Galaxy Mega is NOT a phone.

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