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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

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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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team.

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Teaching Children Through Mobile Gaming | Go Go Mongo

Tech Zulu Event

Noticing the demand and excitement around healthy eating, the team shifted focus towards healthy eating. You’ll see not only the entertainment but also how great of a job Ahmed and his team have done with teaching kids about healthy eating. Prior to starting Go Go Mongo, Ahmed worked as a consultant for IBM.

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An Evening with ImTech: The Era of Experience

Tech Zulu Event

Andrew Cheeseman – Consultant, Previously Emerging Tech Dir at Mattel, IBM. Phil Lelyveld – Program Manager at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center. Greg Davis – General Manager, Total Immersion. Matthew Forrest – COO, Social Animal. Wendy Heimann-Nunes – Partner, Zuber & Taillieu, LLP. Ed Lantz – CEO, Vortex Immersion Media.

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Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many startups have experienced early financial losses and technical glitches, like King Digital Entertainment and the Facebook IPO a while back, which antagonized individual investors and startup executives as well. In addition, most ordinary investors are convinced that IPO rewards only go to insiders.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. Work it did.

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