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AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. Users can create a login for the app or use their Google or Facebook accounts.

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JULY 24, 2017

Campbell was most recently at Google, serving as Managing Director of Global Growth Marketing for Google Cloud, also also had previously worked at JPMorgan Chase and FleetBoston Financial Corporation.

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MARCH 24, 2020

According to the company--which normally runs in-person, corporate team building events--its new "Cyber Sleuths" virtual game uses video and web-conferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Team, Google Hangouts learn the tools to succeed working remotely for the first time.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

STX Entertainment acquires virtual reality company Surreal, Google Daydream to use Hulu VR content, Disney Movies Anywhere integrates with Verizon Fios, and more.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Irvine-based VIZIO said this morning that it has tapped into Google TV with a new product, which lets users turn any HDTV into a smart television. VIZIO said its new Vizio Co-Star Stream Player uses Google TV to allow users to tap into live and streaming entertainment and the web.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. The appetite for space has just been voracious.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

La Jolla-based Nettle , a semi-stealth mode firm which says it is creating a "next-generation social/local/mobile application and website for the global entertainment market", has raised $500,000 in a seed funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As the line blurs between tech and entertainment, and as Silicon Valley seeks synergy with L.A.’s One after another, tech and entertainment companies – and hybrids of the two – have taken root here. commercial real estate market.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace and search engine giant Google announced today that the two have renewed their search and advertising deal. According to the two, Google will continue to power MySpace's search and search advertising, and will also provide additional display advertising services for MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The funding came from angel investors, including Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga), Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's Thirty Five Ventures, Scooter Braun's Raised In Space, Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer (founder of Shutterstock), Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Susquehanna International Group, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment + The Sixers Lab, and (..)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Other production efforts in the area include Amazon.com, which has begun spinning up a big production arm here for producing content for its Amazon Prime instant video service, and Google, which appears to have tapped half the Silicon Beach startup community to provide premium content for YouTube. Photo courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>

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JUNE 9, 2011

5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. We’ve got a very search-friendly site; we are starting to see what Google calls ‘authority’ for terms like ‘list’ and ‘top’ and ‘best’. I see where they are going and I am excited by it. We get referring site traffic.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based games and entertainment content provider IGN says it is launching plans for a new series of live and on-demand gaming events, focused on games and next generation console hardware, as a result of cancellations of events such as E3 2020 and e-sports events. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to Cedars-Sinai, the pilot program lets patients both drive healthcare requests--such as requesting help to go to the restroom--as well as control in-room entertainment, such as turning a TV on or off, changing the channel, or listening to music. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Drivetime , a developer of interactive, voice-driven audio entertainment apps for drivers, has raised $11M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. According to the startup, the funding was led by Makers Fund and also included the Amazon Alexa Fund and Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. Anticipation of Google opening up the doors to businesses on Google+ has been a long awaited feature-add to their fast growing, and widely used platform. Do you have a Google+ Page yet?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Qatalyst Partners is acting as financial advisor to Signal Sciences, while Goodwin Procter was the company’s lawyer.

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MAY 31, 2013

Drew Baumann got his lucky hands on Google’s ongoing project, Google Glass. We get in touch with Drew and talk about his new BEAM app, Google Glasses, and the future of tech. I thought Google Glasses was allowing people to easily share life’s moment through YouTube. How hard was it to work on the Google Glass?

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APRIL 26, 2017

The company said the app includes both content created in-house at Digital Domain, as well as works from its industry partners, including animation, short films, and documentaries plus live and video on demand content from musical, political and entertainment events. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Trinidad previously served at Google and Discovery Networks; Wilkinson was previously a venture capitalist at Exponential Partners--one of Fair's early investors; and Pierantoni was previously Chief Accounting Officer and Chief Financial Officer at TrueCar.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. Earlier this month, Google announced that it will spend an additional $200 million to promote YouTube content.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. Anticipation of Google opening up the doors to businesses on Google+ has been a long awaited feature-add to their fast growing, and widely used platform. Do you have a Google+ Page yet?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. This is the first major exclusive game launch Kabam or any other major gaming company on Google+ and not on Facebook.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The highly anticipated, Harry Potter-themed videogame from Los Angeles-based Jam City -- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery --officially launched today, and is now on Apple's App Store and Google Play. Interactive Entertainment, and features voices of many of the original Harry Potter actors and actresses.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Culver City-based Fullscreen , which operates a multi-channel youTube network, and is led by George Strompolos (formerly of YouTube/Google), has raised $30M in a new round of funding, according to reports today. fullscreen entertainment youtube network venture capital content studio hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is aiming to boost digital streaming and downloading of its content, through a new program the firm announced this morning. The entertainment firm, which is a subsidairy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/News Corp.,

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MAY 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based Machinima , the online video entertainment firm focused on computer gamers, said Monday that it has raised $35M in a financing round. The round was led by Google, along with prior investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The company, led by Steve Raymond, says its team comes from Weta Digital, YouTube, NVIDIA, Google, Valve, Microsoft Research, PayPal, Sony Computer Entertainment, DreamWorks, Yahoo!, The company has an Android app, for Tango-enabled devices, which lets users interact with those "holograms". Viacom and Pixar. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Later, at Jeffries Technologies, and the $120 million Entertainment Media Ventures seed and early stage venture capital fund, Norton was intimately involved in bringing tech to market and focusing on early stage investments. “We want to connect them to the right person at those companies to create a commercial relationship.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Appetize develops a POS system which integrates with mobile payments apps, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and legacy systems. Appetize is venture backed by Guggenheim, the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers family offices, Marc Geiger of William Morris, and Roar Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2014

TAPP said that its investors include Discovery Communications, Demarest Films, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, as well as Ken Moelis, Peter Ezersky and Michael Huber. Details on the funding and backing of the startup were not anounced.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We chose Hollywood because we wanted to put top talent from the Entertainment and Technology industries under one roof. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down.

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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. If you look at Google Panda, they want you to be the best possible resource for a specific thing. That''s how you do well on Google, you become the best resources and site out there for a specific thing.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the company, the app is now available on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, LG Smart TVs, and Samsung Smart TVs. Social video sharing app developer TikTok--which has offices in Los Angeles--said this morning that it is rolling out TikTok TV, its "smart television" app in the US and Canada.

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