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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

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and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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Apace Rolls Out Media Serving Device

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Orange-based Apace Systems , a developer of media storage systems focused on the broadcast market, said this morning that it has rolled out a new product targeted at serving up video for business organizations. Apace said its new product provides video viewing, including from mobile phones and devices; ability to search for video; and more.

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Miso Media Gets $600K

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Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of music education software, said Friday that it has raised a $600,000 round of seed financing. Miso Media provides technology to help users learn the guitar and ukelele. The round came from Google Ventures, Keith Rabois, Laura Ziskin, and other un-named seed investors.

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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For today's interview, we spoke to Bill Curtis , the founder of Malibu-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com). We spoke to Bill about CurtCo's move into the podcasting area, and why he thinks podcasting is the next frontier in media. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? No one else is doing that now in podcasting.

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Interview with Aviv Grill, Miso Media

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Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. He showed me the prototype, we flushed it out, and figured out what Miso Media could really end up being.

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Mission Debuts Managed Services, Cloud Consulting After Merger

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The company said its core customers are in the media and entertainment, mobile gaming, digital media, education, consumer goods, marketing, ecommerce, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) verticals.

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Next 10 Ventures is launching an incubator for YouTube personalities

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The only requirement is that they focus on educational video content targeting children and young adults. The firm’s hypothesis is that digitally savvy, mobile-first content creators are big money makers, or will be 10 years down the line — hence the fund’s name. What’s in it for Next 10?

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