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APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer.

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MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Founded in 2007.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. We worked with an enterprise web analytics application that was very, very expensive and very, very complicated. Tell us how you got the name?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Today major brands in entertainment, automotive, travel, technology, and CPGs are embracing mobile, especially mobile rich media, to engage and interact with consumers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

As we recall, this year has kicked off with some fierce acquisitions in the connected home and internet of things (IOT) space, namely with Google’s high profile $3.2 Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Full stop. TreeHouse is also a video company. He sold both companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. Some examples of those who we have worked very closely with are Ron Garrett, who was the lead engineer on Google AdWords. Those are two examples, we have about a dozen. We're thinking September or October to launch the program.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. We raised $16.5

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google.

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