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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Two, Southern California startups -- whole home music system developer Sonos , and streaming music service Beats Music -- made their Super Bowl commercial debuts yesterday, an unusual occasion for the startup community here. turbotax startup hulu crackle seinfeld debut commercial bowl super superbowl sonos music beats'

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The big three options right now are Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and they’re getting bigger: Americans are watching more than an hour of streaming content per day , a number excepted to steadily increase over time. So let’s took a look at the basics of each, and which service may appeal to you. Hulu Basics.

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JULY 17, 2012

NetDNA said it has standardized its NetDNA and MaxCDN services on NGINX, a developer of open source web servers which is being used by high volume websites such as WordPress and Hulu. Financial aspects of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

Studio City-based FilmTrack , which develops software-as-a-service for managing rights and content management for the film, video, and television industry, has raised $20M in a funding round. Lang was recently CEO of Miramax, and was at Fox Entertainment, involved with both Hulu and MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2013

The content deal is one of the latest in a long line of content deals that online streaming video providers such as Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and Hulu have been developing with Hollywood to provide content differentiation on their services, and to attract new viewers to their services.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Irvine-based Western Digital , the developer of disk drives and other electronics products, said today that it has launched a new version of its streaming media player which connects with the Spotify music service. The WD streaming media player uses wireless 802.11n to connect to the Internet. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

CBS and Amazon.com announced a deal this morning, which will bring exclusive access to the upcoming CBS "Under the Dome" series to Amazon Prime Instant Video, Amazon's video-on-demand service. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the online video guide service funded by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said that it has linked with the University of California, Los Angeles, with a branded version of the service specifically for UCLA students. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Hulu is the leading player for streaming television. Frankly, I’m surprised Netflix doesn’t buy Hulu. Focus – By having two separate businesses, each with it’s own CEO and own teams, they can focus on their two very different businesses and develop the right strategies for each. No time soon.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Does the world need another, online streaming media service for movies and television? It turns out that Technicolor had already been separately developing a platform for digital media distribution. Why a new, streaming service -- and how is this different from Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc? What''s the story behind M-GO?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. During an interview, he discusses that Hulu had its free version with 25 M uniques, which they needed to actively covert into premium subscribers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

seamlessly connect to your smartphone, PC, and streaming media services. The company's all- in-one Play:3 lets users control their music wirelessly, and stream from your music library, music services, or radio stations. The Mint Plus Cleaner--which was developed in Pasadena by Evolution Robotics, the. Mint Plus Cleaner.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. So it is quite lofty to compare hulu with OPEC. Here is my case: 1.

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MARCH 1, 2013

Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Where's the service now? Darren Marble: Top-tier, independent filmmakers. What's your background?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Last week, job search service Indeed launched a new service in Los Angeles, called Indeed Prime , hoping to jump into the market for finding talent here to address that issue. Briefly tell us about your new service? Why did you pick Los Angeles for the new job service? because it's been such a hot job market.

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JUNE 9, 2016

It's really the home of a broad base of services to help media and tech companies develop new opportunities, and accelerate their success. The question for all of these, is how do you differentiate your subscription service. That's different from others out there. How did you decide to start the firm?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Content is king, and local startup Yekra has just secured $3 million in funding for their digital rights distribution service for the every man. Yekra also allows creators to establish an exclusivity rights period and set up distribution to other platforms including Netflix and Hulu Plus. The company has been funded for $3.1M

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. We also have a music streaming service, iROKING , which has been dubbed by some as the ‘Spotify’ of Africa.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. Just ask MySpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. Fuel Micro Jobs. The world is flat, but it’s also poor.

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. What's your story and how did you end up founding Pluto TV? Ilya Pozin: I'm a Russian, and came here when I was eight.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. Consumers have a limited number of hours in the day so the distributors compete for share of mind and while they can sign up for multiple services there are some natural limitations, which causes a battle for the share of wallet.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence&# – but I believe the services will inter-operate. they’ll try to “move up the stack&# and provide some of these services themselves. But the whole market will develop more slowly as we watch this bum fight take place.

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