socalTECH

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. They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days.

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Google Tech Coast Angels Screening Santa Monica 253

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The evolution of home entertainment offers numerous opportunities for startups to leverage the new and innovative ways consumers are digesting audio content. Neither Google nor Amazon offer ads on their platforms. Additionally, 66% indicated that they use their smart speakers to entertain friends and family members.

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Platform Technical Review Research Entertainment 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based Artie, a new startup developing mobile games which can be played inside social media, video, and messaging platforms, said this week that it has raised $10M in a seed funding round.

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Mobile Seed Funding Social Media Entertainment 113

socalTECH

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>>.

Entertainment 113

Entertainment Google Los Angeles Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

socalTECH

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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Google Content Startup Venice 233

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. 5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. We get referring site traffic.

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

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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Google Entertainment Startup Organization 65

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. We chose Hollywood because we wanted to put top talent from the Entertainment and Technology industries under one roof. Don't bet on any one platform. Or Tapes and CDs?

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

socalTECH

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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Funding Venture Capital Entertainment Google 164

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. What was the big news for your company this year?

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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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Google Entertainment Startup Organization 45

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

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Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2011

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. In a world dominated by Google, Apple and Facebook, can the other content and media companies retain or regain their former glory? Speakers: Richard Berger, Sr.

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Content Technology Council TCOSC Cloud Computing 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. In a world dominated by Google, Apple and Facebook, can the other content and media companies retain or regain their former glory? See [link].

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Content Technology Council TCOSC Cloud Computing 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

They point to lots of different mobile computing devices – Smartphone, Kindle, Tablet, MP3, Cell Phone, PDA, Car Electronics, GPS, ABS, A/V – but then they add in other things that to me are more about convergence than mobile, e.g., home entertainment, home appliances. I’m not so sure that a bet on Facebook as the platform is a good one.

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Mobile Slides Web 2.0 Social Network 204

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

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. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? It was built in pilot with BMW, HP and one huge, beloved entertainment company here in LA that I guess was a bit gun shy to include their name in our announcement.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

We started internationally, and built out our international platform first, and rolled it back into the U.S. To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets.

Santa Monica 149

Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2013

SGN is the priemere cross-platform mobile game developer founded by MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe, delivering highly entertaining and engaging titles to millions of users around the world. SGN owns a proprietary technology which seamlessly deploys games across iOS, Google Play, Facebook and Amazon.

Develop 76

Develop Development Technical Review Southern California 76

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

Andrew Stalbow: We''re building mobile games, that are designed to be developed into bigger entertainment properties. Audiences have moved very quickly to mobile, and I think that mobile is a brilliant platform on which to build a next generation brand. Where do you see Seriously fitting into the mobile games industry?

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Hollywood Mobile Content IP 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

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. zettabytes by the year 2016.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates.

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Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 226

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Speakers include Brad Wyman of Indiegogo; Taz Goldstein, award-winning director and producer and co-founder of Chaos Theory Entertainment; Jon O’Brian, Co-Founder of New Antics; Geoffrey Plitt, Standup comic, screenwriter and filmmaker and former Google engineer and George Rausch, producer with a film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

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Statistics Entertainment Google Web 90

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Google Ad Sense was just getting going. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 But Google is still showing great financial performance. The contextual ad market was attractive. 34:30 – 37:00).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. We are power users and we are constantly trying to redefine platforms we are frustrated with. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us.

Startup 69

Startup Social Media Platform Media 69

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84