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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

socalTECH

We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization. There was a recent study which showed that adding a video makes it 53 times more likely that you'll have a Google first page search result. What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from? How is the company funded?

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And this small box that we are as the entertainers of the evening, how could you explain that?

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And this small box that we are as the entertainers of the evening, how could you explain that?