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MARCH 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based streaming television service Hulu said Wednesday morning that it has acquired the streaming rights to the documentary Free Solo , which highlights rock climber Alex Honnold as he prepares to climb--without ropes--El Capitan, the 3,200 foot peak in Yosemite National Park. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu has one word for Yahoo : hands off our CEO! According to a Hulu spokesperson, as reported, its CEO, Jason Kilar, has been a focus of Yahoo's CEO search committee. The spokesperson told socalTECH that Kilar has "graciously declined to be considered."

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has rolled out a new feature to help its users track their favorite shows and content on the service. hulu watchlist show content episode movie tracking hollywood streaming media video' The new feature works both online as well as on iPhones, iPads, Android, and gaming consoles.

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JULY 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu is planning to add another, premium tier to its services, which would allow users to completely skip out on advertising. According to the WSJ, Hulu is exploring adding thew new premium service at between $12.00 Hulu has not officially announced any plans for the service.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu is looking to sell a stake in the company to Time Warner , according to a report , which would value Hulu at $5 billion. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2013

He understands our issues as a community and vows to help keep LA Tech on the map. And how can you help? If you live in LA (or even if you don’t you can help amplify) please consider Tweeting the following: “I support the tech industry. From his opponent I have heard crickets in the past year. Why does it matter?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users. The privately held firm did not disclose its revenues, however, the firm has previously been reported to have had revenues of between $50-100M in revenues in 2011, and $15-20M in revenues in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based OpenX appears to be continuing to bolster its executive ranks--and a possible IPO bid--with the naming of Tom Fuelling, the former CFO of Hulu, as its Chief Financial Officer this morning. openx fuelling hulu executive merger acquisition' Fuelling was at ARTISTdirect when it went through its own IPO. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Fuelling was most recently CFO over at Laurel & Wolf, and also has served at such companies as OpenX and Hulu. Spokeo said Fuelling will help support its growth and ongoing innovation, and will oversee its accounting and finance teams. Fuelling was the twelfth employee at Hulu, and was Hulu's CFO for more than six years.

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JULY 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based TopSpin Media , the provider of tools for helping musicians market themselves online, has scored a win with the Sundance Institute , the nonprofit which runs the Sundance Film Festival. Financial details of the win were not announced.

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APRIL 23, 2013

It''s increasing a world where online video distribution channels (YouTube, Hulu) are more important than the old-fashioned broadcast and cable television -- and where online video channels are helping to pave and define a new way of reaching audiences and pioneering content.

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APRIL 6, 2015

MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th. San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

FilmTrack is led by Jason Kassin, and helps film, video, and television publishers with managing their intellectual property. Lang was recently CEO of Miramax, and was at Fox Entertainment, involved with both Hulu and MySpace. The round came from Insight Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based 3Rodeo , a brand venture capital investment firm led by former Hulu executive Noah Heller, says it is targeting investments in startups in Los Angeles. Size of the new fund was not announced. Size of the new fund was not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Not Impossible Labs and Avnet developing wearable device to help people with motor-related health issues; Hulu redesigns for the computer screen and mouse; new CEO at X1 Discovery

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The licensing deal is part of a growing trend of online video streaming services--Hulu, Netflix, Amazon--to develop their own stable of exclusive online content, to attract viewers and subscribers to their services.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). How to find a startup mentor.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Bingie , a new startup, debuted a new, social recommendations app that helps users get movie recommendations from their friends on Thursday. The startup--led by Matt Knox--says the app helps users with movie recommendations across such services as Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and more.

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MAY 7, 2021

Santa Monica-based a href="[link] Cycle, a developer of software for market research, said it has rolled out a new tool to help with ongoing issue tracking for companies using continuous product development. The company said its customers include Peloton, Hulu, Thomson Reuters, Viacom, ro.co, Gymshark and others.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Perch , a startup which helps users grow their credit by allowing them to pay for such things as Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, and other services on credit, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding, the company said this week.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based Perch, a startup which operates a service that lets users build their credit by paying for Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, and other services on credit, has scored an investment from financial giant Citi, via Citi's new Citi Impact Fund. Size of the investment was not announced. Citi announced the investment this morning.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. Your “anchor talent” helps attract audiences that in turn want to discover new artists. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube. MSN & AOL.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

We''re now in beta, and are incorporating services like iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu, and will be incorporating more (this) year. Phoebe Scott: Right now, we''re affiliates of other sites that we work with, such as iTunes and Hulu. Instead of waiting for someone else to fix my own problem, I thought I might as well give it a shot.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

The company said its new product, Zypline, helps media owners deliver video to OTT platforms, automating and simplifying the process of distributing content to Roku, Hulu, Verizon, Comcast, LeEco and other OTT platforms. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC. We started talking about how in a country with so much consumer debt she could help women unlock the value of the clothes already in their closets. Sure, she could pitch it as a P2P marketplace. But not Peoria.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. But, really, at our core, we want to build our technology and utilize it to help drive viewers to other content holders. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We want to provide a menu of things that people want answered immediately, and help them to solve their next project. It's a hands-on kind of education.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We had the notion that we could create a service that was aimed at the mass market, which was really user friendly, which provided a service to the consumer, and that helped bring back the fun in the entertainment experience, so that we could help the consumer bridge the digital divide.

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APRIL 24, 2013

A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. During an interview, he discusses that Hulu had its free version with 25 M uniques, which they needed to actively covert into premium subscribers. Richie is also an entrepreneur, connector and Investor.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Those include quite a few brands you probably recognize, including Twitter, Hulu, Pinterest, EMI, Wordpress, Break.com, and a whole host of other companies. Content delivery networks are there to help improve the performance, and serve up that content more intelligently to devices, to thd network, and to users, as they consume the Internet.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

But I also accept and appreciate the ads in Hulu because I know that I’m watching shows for free. Think about this – bands and stars helped bring people by the millions to MySpace. People feel angst about advertising in any form – I feel the same feeling about advertising as most consumers.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. We have people like Hulu, Shoedazzle, Docstoc, and a ton more signed up already. It forces you to think very deeply about the problem they are solving.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. I personally find music more distracting than helpful. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place. It’s what helps us imagine what feature sets would be most appealing. For others they swear by music.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So the video content you recommend--is that user generated like YouTube, or professional content like Hulu? Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Communications is being changed by people like Twitter, commerce by people like GroupOn, informed by people like DemandMedia and entertainment by people like Hulu. We have started to build initiatives like Launchpad LA to help bring this community together and make it easier for first time entrepreneurs.

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