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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout.

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

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Founded by a former Pixar and DreamWorks animator, Rex Grignon, Nimble launched in 2014 and has raised just under $10 million from investors including the UCLA VC Fund and New Enterprise Associates, according to Crunchbase. We afford this pathway between the studio in LA and the studio in Bangalore. We open these doorways.”

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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? We closed on the final round of funding earlier on this year with Swedish-based hedge fund, Kinnevik.

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Central Desktop Sees Growth, Boosts Hires In 2009

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Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Darren Litt, MarketerHire

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It's a talent marketplace that connects marketers with customers, from big boys like Netflix, to startups like Allbirds, and all kinds of other companies. How did you solve the problem that marketplaces have of supply and demand? How are you funding the business? Darren Litt: We just closed a round of funding.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV. That just doesn't happen.

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5 Inertia Traps To Avoid In Your Business Leadership

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Then when market demand slows, you are not able to react in time. For example, Blockbuster was so busy expanding its hugely profitable video rental business, adding stores at a breakneck rate, that it failed to really take notice of new entrants like Netflix with no late fees, Redbox automated kiosks, and video on demand.