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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. -Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Competitors: Gowalla.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. In fact, so many DID NOT that companies like Google & Yahoo! It is the birthplace of Hewlett Packard.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY. Let me use LA as an example.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. NAME Google.

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