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MAY 10, 2017

According to Zynga, it has provided a "substantial gift" to USC's School of Cinematic ARts' Interactive Media & Games Division, to support diversity, inclusive game production, and the creation of "innovative social mobile gameplay." READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2012

The University of Southern California's Entertainment Technology Center , which is part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, said this week that it has named a new CEO. He also has served at Captive Media, Ascent Media Group, and Technicolor Digital Cinema. Williams as CEO and Executive Director of the organization.

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MARCH 26, 2013

USC revealed this morning that it has created a new, startup accelerator on campus, the Viterbi Startup Garage , which will help students and alumni start technology companies in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Virtual reality hardware and software developer Jaunt --which is backed by The Walt Disney Company, Evolution Media Partners, China Media Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Axel Springer, ProSiebenSat.1

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MARCH 11, 2010

Max Nikias, currently Executive Vice President and Provost of the school--and former Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering--as a replacement for outgoing President Steven B. The University of Southern California is tapping C. Sample, the school announced this morning. Nikias has a Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based top level domain extension.LA , which has been marketing a top level domain which celebrates the association with Los Angeles, said it will be giving away stuffed bears at random to users who promote the domain on social media, like its Facebook page, or subscribe to its email newsletter.

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MAY 4, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health information site run by Demand Media and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, said today that it has named Dr. Leslie Anne Saxon as its Chief Medical Advisor. Livestrong said that Dr.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

The United Talent Agency is ramping up its outreach to early stage, digital media companies, with a new hire from the Los Angeles technology industry. The UTA has already been very active in approaching the startup commmunity, most recently backing the USC Viterbi Startup Garage with Kleiner Perkins. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. This is why I say that Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media. Often very IT focused, but can be interesting topics.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

election--there was one local, media startup which called the dynamics of the election year right: Los Angeles-based TYT Network , and founder Cenk Uygur. The other local outlet which got it right: The USC Dornslife/Los Angeles Times "Daybreak" Poll , which consistently showed Donald Trump in the lead. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

According to the company, its software uses on-site cameras, historical crime records, social media, geolocation information, flight schedules, crowd movement patterns and real-time incident reporting for planning out patrols for USC, the Coast Guard, the Air Marshal service, and others.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Hood had previously served as head of USC''s Communication Technology Management Institute with the Marshall School of Business, and also had been at News Corporation, serving as founding President of Fox Mobile Entertainment. Hood was a regular at local technology and media conferences. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Scripted.com, which is led by Sunil Rajaraman, also counts Break Media's Keith Richman as an advisor, along with actor/writer/director Edward Burns. Scripted.com also operates Scripped.com, an online marketplace for script writers, and was founded by UCLA and USC graduates in Los Angeles, and later moved to San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

in angel funding, from Jarl Mohn, Gordon Crawford, Kevin Wall, Activation Media Partners, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel, Jeff Pulver, and Richard Crowell. nProgress said its ntro app had a pilot launch at USC and UC Berkeley; the firm is now opening up the app in both Los Angeles and the Bay Area. nProgress is backed by $1.7M

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Plus, exposure through USC led me to the Tech Coast Angels. I found the process incredibly great.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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JUNE 2, 2014

We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA. The firm's software allows users to upload photos to create their own, 3-D avatars, which can then be inserted into online greeting cards, scenes from movies, photos, and other media.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. We're even building a digital media lab on our second floor. What's the mix of your clients? Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We've seen a lot of innovation come out of Los Angeles in the past few years, with Demand Media, Socialvibe, Zag, ShoeDazzle, Factual and many others. 2tor is partnered with USC and other high-end universities to deliver full, high-quality Masters degree programs, completely online, to their students.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. We focus on a lot of sectors, but the geography is more important to us than the industry.

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MARCH 14, 2011

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry. How is the company backed? Finally, what's next for you?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. I was just judging the USC gaming hackathon. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. Howard Marks: Absolutely.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

My cofounder Atish ran Black Sheep College Media, which was like The Onion for college. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish. We also rank and rate students after they've completed a mission, which helps them build a reputation, as well. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. We've got original contributors such as Vox Media, Maker Studio's POLIPOP Network, everyone from the Bad Lip Reading Guys, to Barackdubs, it spans the spectrum. So, we started to create ways of categorizing and classifying comedic content.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. We went out and validated this, and found out that the biggest people who dominate social media are clearly from the entertainment industry and sports, what you call stars. That''s where the company started from.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. more) READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis. What''s the story behind the company? Before that, I was in New York, City. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. socaltech socal socalcto

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. What's your background, and how did you get into this? It represents a tremendous opportunity.

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