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Ring's Latest Patent Application Raises Alarms Among Privacy Advocates

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Santa Monica-based Ring has just received a patent on adding facial recognition to its cameras--allowing some future version of the camera to automtically call police on a "suspicious" subject--in a move that has raised alarms among privacy and social advocates. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Sweetens Executive Pot

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Ahead of its IPO, Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online domain name and media publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, updated its IPO filings Thursday, saying that it has granted $30.8M in additional, stock-based compensation to its executive officers, if the firm completes an IPO before March of next year. READ MORE>>.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Creating very natural and appealing social engagement opportunity, as well as video without the television network costs. Matching ads to content is what they do. Engagement rate is at 0.5%

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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In total, Demand Media owns 20 media networks in the US alone and is one of the best reasons why Paul Graham believes Hollywood is dead. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI RiJCFI 30 minutes ago. The iPad mini?