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Ticketmaster's TicketWeb Buys Strobe Labs

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Los Angeles-based TicketWeb , the self service ticketing arm of Ticketmaster , announced this morning that it has acquired event marketing software developer Strobe Labs. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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ScoreBig.com Names Goldberg CEO

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Los Angeles-based online live entertainment marketplace ScoreBig.com has promoted David Goldberg to CEO, and shifted co-founder and CEO Adam Kanner to the role of executive Chairman, the company said Thursday afternoon. Goldberg was previously the CEO of Youbet.com, and also was EVP of Global Music Services at Ticketmaster.

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ScoreBig Bolsters Exec Team To Accelerate Growth

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Los Angeles-based online ticket marketplace ScoreBig.com is bolstering its executive team today, saying it has named two new VPs to help drive growth at the company. According to ScoreBig, it saw 600 percent revenue growth in 2012, and the expansion will help grow the company further.

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

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As an executive at the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Kanner saw those issues--plus the industry's own desire to sell its unsold inventory--so he created ScoreBig (www.scorebig.com), an online marketplace aimed at connecting consumers with awesome deals on below-face value, live entertainment tickets. That's your retail channel.

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ScoreBig.com Gets $10M Investment

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Goldberg was formerly an EVP at Ticketmaster, and was also CEO of Youbet.com, and co-founded Tunes.com and Sportvision. ScoreBig.com is led by Adam Kanner, and offers up an online marketplace for live entertainment tickets. scorebig investment online marketplace live entertainment sports ticketing tickets' Venture Partners.

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Goldstar Seats You With Friends With New Ticketing Feature

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Pasadena-based Goldstar , the half-price, entertainment ticket retailer headed by Jim McCarthy, said Monday that it has launched a new feature which lets users easily get seats next to their friends on events. Goldstar had said it was approaching five million tickets sold on August 17th.

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Metacloud Debuts OpenStack Private Cloud Services

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Vice President of Technology Operations at Ticketmaster Entertainment. MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems. MetaCloud is headed by Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo's global storage operations. MetaCloud's co-founders also include Sean Lynch, former Sr.