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APRIL 25, 2011

Topspin said its new discounted accounts make it easier for labels, marketers, and other companies to get their clients on board its platform. Topspin is headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, and backed by Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. Topspin is backed by the Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Vizio said that both video services will be available on its VIZIO Internet Apps (VIA) Connected CE platform, available on its LCD HDTV and select Blu-ray players. VIZIO already offers up access to Amazon Video On Demand, Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, and such services as Facebook and Yahoo Fantasy Football on its connected TV line.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI. I argued ages ago that Yahoo!

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more.

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APRIL 14, 2011

It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. It's interesting to see that, despite selling Wallstrip to CBS, that content isn't the goal here?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. In other words, the application often requests permission to tweet or publish content to your wall. And you can see two different profiles with different sets of content. Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo!

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

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

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

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APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: We are a social platform for families involved in youth sports. The social platform is very family friendly, and provides all of the front end functions for parents and kids involved in Little League, Pop Warner, or whatever group activity that keeps a family busy. How did WePlay come about?

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Southern California Startup Platform Coach 183

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JULY 1, 2010

-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. And our belief is that consumer applications — almost all of the things consumers DO on the Internet — that ride on this Internet infrastructure layer fall into just three buckets we call “the three c’s”: content, commerce and communications.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

If users go to Pinterest to plan things, then they come to Tapiture for a personalized experience based on fancy algorithms that tailors content to their tastes. We went into this knowing how our users engage with content. We are able to correlate the connection between commerce and content through our technology.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. He talked about artists needing to retain rights for their website and digital content like ringtones.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! They specialized in content creation. Like Gary Vaynerchuk, Cunningham built the family business 10 fold through creating branded web content with a viral touch. officially launched 4 months ago taking the original content a ballpark further.

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data. and Microsoft had become.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

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MARCH 26, 2009

Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. Our platform allows that.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. It’s core platform stuff. Other Deals.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. At the same time, working at Twistbox, a mobile content publisher--it was kind of frustrating to only have rights for one particular vertical. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. You don’t.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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MAY 23, 2012

Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. We used that platform to start engaging audiences with movies and that data, and built up. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going. You've gotten quite a bit of attention given your prior position at Yahoo -- why'd you leave Yahoo for a startup, and why Topspin? What's the idea behind Topspin Media?

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Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. On Demand).

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. That's very basic, but it would uniquely identify who I am talking to, adapt that content, and engage you further. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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JULY 27, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. William Chow: This gives you a way to control that content.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Publisher Platform (P3). Whats Hot Menu.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Gapingvoid provided a variety of content (in addition to the live-tooning) for the event, from the official event’s t-shirts, to the animations that launched each day’s events. I had the pleasure of hanging out in the DJ booth at the TCDisrupt Yahoo! See the video reel, here , for examples and highlights from the event.

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