L.A. Business Journal

JULY 22, 2016

Birchbox runs customer service test on Snapchat, Free Reign Entertainment launches Shattered Skies, and Easypose expands on-demand yoga instruction.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Snap is trying to lure Instagram advertisers by offering them free ads on Snapchat; Elon Musk explains why SpaceX prefers clusters of small engines for the Falcon Heavy; and digital media drives entertainment employment growth in Los Angeles

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

version of this new breed of entertainer, the collective behind the account is far from the only one. At Betaworks, the firm is exploring the popularity of these virtual characters — and the role that artificial intelligence and new content creation technologies will play in reshaping entertainment and social media platforms.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , said on Thursday that it has launched a new offering called Snap Games , which will offer up real-time, multiplayer gaming to users of Snapchat.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat has reported acquired Voisey , the developer of an app which lets users overlay their voice on top of existing music tracks.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Social Media: Snapchat. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family. Silicon Beach Fest is Digital LA’s bi-annual startup entertainment festival featuring panels, showcases, hack-a-thons, and more.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

” He views Facebook and Snapchat primarily as messaging apps and said Instagram is having an “identity crisis.” . “The mentality around this is so different, like, people are just obsessed with the actual digital fashion itself and creating your dream closet,” Nigam said.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Brad Brooks: Locally, I think Snapchat's IPO is going to spawn a massive ecosystem in the Southern California tech community. Previously, Brad was President of DIC Entertainment, an international children's media company, which he acquired with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

The firm hopes to formally integrate the startup community with key investors, representatives from local government, and members of the entertainment industry. Between factors like lower cost of living and access to the entertainment industry, LA has the perfect resources to become the world’s next hub of startup success,” Miao went on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth. Maker Studios, the largest producer of online short-form videos (content) recently sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion. All great communication companies.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

For companies in the media, entertainment, or content business, there’s no better place to be. s recent success stories — such as Snapchat, Tinder, and ZipRecruiter — begin to reinvest their financial and human capital now, this flywheel effect may blossom even sooner than expected.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles�as the center of the entertainment industry�has begun to adopt a new role as the center of online video in recent years�and has also with the e-commerce industry and expertise here from the technology industry. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

We've since expanded to Instagram and Vine, and it's Snapchat and Youtube next. In our food area, it's more visual, and we find that works well on Facebook, Instagram, and Vine, and we're now also moving into Snapchat and Youtube. You'll see us in news, politics, and in food, and next for us is more pop culture and entertainment.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Snapchat Stories are an easy way to send your friend a birthday wish. Each month, Doppels hosts an On Deck concert series entitled “Gratitude” to help raise money for local charity where the entertainment community can come together and put on a show in the name of giving where all donations go to charity. “It Express Yourself.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. They are texting their friends about the sunglasses they love, the shoes they love, the tennis racket they use.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. We recently crossed a million active users in the United States, who get a text message from us two to three times a week.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology. Snapchat started as a communications company, but it too is transforming itself into a media company. The big opportunity is the fundamental, transformation of media via digital technology, which is a tremendous opportunity.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 30, 2016

They say that the interactions on Snapchat or Facebook “aren’t real” and are alienating kids from the world. But, the truth is that people will always be looking for new ways to be entertained, consume media, and engage with each other. Every new medium brings along a healthy fear that the newest invention will ruin society.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). These usually crash before you can get there, or don’t necessarily extend to new players entering the same space.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

Surprisingly, as I turned my phone towards us to take a pic to post on SnapChat, she smiled right on cue. But to my entertainment and yours, I didn’t leave her without getting the SnapChat must of a face swap! Leave it to me to be impressed with a humanoid knowing to be camera ready more than giving me a physics equation.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Each mentor spoke for nearly an hour to the entire group, answered questions, and sat with each company for one-on-one mentoring.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

The group says they took inspiration from similar community-oriented tech incubators in Atlanta like the Russel Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs , PROPEL Center and Gathering Spot , but Collab Studio will focus more specifically on the entertainment industry. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah said that didn’t map to his views on the history of the media business or to his own experiences at BuzzFeed where he contents that he is being paid to produce content by companies like Facebook and Snapchat. Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel.

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