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Carrot Group Ties With Lenovo On STEAM Education

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Los Angeles-based Carrot Group, which develops an e-sports based product to engage students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) skills, says it is in a collaboration with Lenovo to expand adoption of its product in school districts.

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How Epoxy Is Helping Content Creators Make Their Video More Social

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We spoke with co-founders Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad about Epoxy''s mission, its roots from projects at Team Downey, the production firm of Robert Downey Jr., I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. We had been looking at for use at Team Downey, internally.

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Airware Gets $10.7M From Google, Andreessen For Unmanned Drone Technology

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Airware is led by Jonathan Downey. The firm''s products include a range of autopilot hardware (circuits and software) specifically used for UAS designs. READ MORE>>. airware venture capital unmanned aerial vehicle drone hardware electronics'

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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Because it’s video it is understood so poorly by the normal tech elite but the company has an amazing combination of content production, marketing, talent management and technology (tech team of nearly 60) and I can’t think of a better partner and home to develop this great company than Disney.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Production costs have fallen more than 90%. He initially started by becoming an investor in the company along with many of the good & great of our industry including Shari Redstone, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Miller & Robert Downey, Jr. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes. The future of the Internet is video.

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