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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. As a studio, we are building entertainment titles that capture that spirit. Our business model is based on selling entertainment to consumers.

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

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At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. It’s the screens that pop up our restaurant locations, calculate our exercise outputs or show us our bank balances. I see the same again with the entertainment industry.

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