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Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre

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Interestingly, an LA Times article back in 2018 noted that the space, “may also serve as a declaration that Apple intends to compete as a major Hollywood content creator.” The store has been in the works for a number of years, owing in part to having to work with the city to restore a space that had been declared a landmark.

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How Focus@Will Uses Music To Help You Concentrate Better

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Can music help you concentrate (on school, work, or other tasks) better? We caught up with Will to learn more about the company and how it hopes its service and music can help people improve their concentration. It's quite simple really, it helps you concentrate better on tasks. Explain what Focus@will is all about?

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

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For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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Amazon.com Takes On the Movie Business

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Amazon.com said Tuesday evening that it is launching a new online business, which looks to help find new talent and develop motion pictures from online submissions. Tags: amazon studios movie content hollywood contest production. According to Amazon.com, its new business-- Amazon Studios --will award a total of $2.7 READ MORE>>.

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Ebyline Launches New Service For Publishers

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Los Angeles-based Ebyline , the online marketplace which connects publishers with freelance journalists, has rolled out a new offering today, which it says can help publishers produce their own, custom news feeds. The service, called Ebyline News Desk, allows publishers to create their own, custom feeds of original content. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. Anne Walls: Everything.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Your “anchor talent” helps attract audiences that in turn want to discover new artists. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube. Where talent shows up unknown you don’t have huge revenue splits and you benefit them by helping them build audience / fame. Technology is Critical.

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