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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

TechCrunch LA

Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention. Part of that is because of how PortalOne has built out its platform. “This is part of our secret sauce.”

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The Digital Media SIG Presents: TV in 2012: It's Multi-Screen, It's in the Cloud, It's Everywhere!

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -- The Digital Media SIG Presents: TV in 2012: It's Multi-Screen, It's in the Cloud, It's Everywhere! In this multi-screen, hyper connected world, convenient and instantaneous access to enormous content libraries is the new norm. This is an event not to be missed! See [link] (more)

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Rumpus, the collaborative toolkit from Oblong Industries, is now available on Webex

TechCrunch LA

Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries , which has labored to create a full stack of collaborative tools for business users that are every bit as high-tech as the one’s Underkoffler dreamt for the silver screen.

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How Facebook Videos Can Boost Your Social Media Campaign

Tech.Co

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Social media is popular.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Microsoft, Disney Link On Cloud, Technology Deal

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are in a new deal where the two will work together, where Disney will work with Microsoft on ways to create, produce and distribute content on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the companies announced on Friday morning. The Walt Disney Studios , in Burbank, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. READ MORE>>.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

Tech Zulu Event

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future. It is essentially a super large screen pad.