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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

TechCrunch LA

Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention. Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living.

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LA-based MarketerHire upgrades its service matching remote marketers with companies

TechCrunch LA

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. . And the industry it’s tackling accounts for some $248.9 billion in business spending.

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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. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles. We open these doorways.”

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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”

Both Sides of the Table

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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Canoo takes the covers off of its debut electric vehicle

TechCrunch LA

The Canoo designers have departed pretty radically from the traditional designs that other electric vehicle manufacturers have favored going with something that looks more like a VW Microbus than the sport utility vehicle that Byton is aiming for, or Tesla and Fisker’s sportscars and sedans or Rivian’s electric trucks.

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Matt Knox and Joey Lane, Bingie

socalTECH

I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. We did a lot of testing before we actually started designing and building Bingie, including running surveys, and started with kids as young as fourteen and people as old as 70. Netflix is now in 190 countries. Who is the target audience for the app?

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Citrusbyte Wants the World to Build Better Software

Tech.Co

Citrusbyte is a full stack, design and development firm that specializes in helping companies get the APIs they need to run more efficiently. They’ve built products that have completely transformed industries, like the AT&T M2X Internet of Things platform. “If