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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014. .

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Of course you know Gangnam Style , which is now the most viewed video in history at 1.3 I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs.

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Here Is What You Missed At VidCon 2013

InfoChachkie

To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. Mr. Green disclosed that his Crash Course web series received over $70k of pledges ($30k in the form of monthly, recurring grants) within the first 7-days the site was launched.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. And of course we had, TheMan. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. Any Hollywood studios taking notice? ==> What do you think about the Netflix decision?

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Coming from the world of academia, did you feel you had to overtly fight the Hollywood stereotype that business leaders have to be greedy and vindictive to win? . “In John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.