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Demand Media Ties With Tyra Banks On Beauty, Fashion Site

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Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, announced today that it has inked a partnership with celebrity model Tyra Banks , to create a new site focused on fashion and beauty. The deal will make Tyra Banks a shareholder in Demand Media, which is rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO.

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Solve, the startup creating an interactive “Law & Order” for social media, raises $20 million

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Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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New Paths Toward Convergence

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Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones along with the broadband networks that connect themhave quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world. Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- "New Paths Toward Convergence" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. See [link] (more).

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Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

TechCrunch LA

It’s a matter of survival thanks to the persistent lack of demand from consumers. . That’s the hope of people like Nancy Bennett, an entertainment industry veteran who was brought on as the Chief Creative Officer at Two Bit Circus. ” Bennett knows a thing or two about entertainment.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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There is a world filled with professional producers of video content who are extraordinarily talented but lack access to Hollywood. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. And to those who keep telling me that the CPMs are too low to make a business please stop thinking about two-way entertainment in only CPM terms.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. OnHollywood socalTECH is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite.

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