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Riot Games: $160,000 Raised For Japan Relief

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Los Angeles-based Riot Games , the online game developer, said today that its players have raised over $162,000 for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Riot Games donated all of its proceeds from player purchases of certain items to the American Red Cross from March 21st to March 27th. READ MORE>>.

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Report Tallies $7.7 Billion In SoCal IT Exits In 2011

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billion in IT exits in 2011, the highest since 2000, for Southern California IT firms. Among other major 2011 exits listed were Riot Games ($400 million) and HauteLook ($270 million). A new report released today tallies up $7.7 Both years were well above 2009, which had a low of only $475M in exits.

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White House Order Bans TikTok, WeChat

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TikTok has 1500 U.S. employees, with its largest office in Culver City.

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Reflections on 2016: Michael Root, DogVacay

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Michael Root , the new CTO of DogVacay (www.dogvacay.com)--but longtime Los Angeles tech vet, having most recently been at Riot Games. I love life and try and live it 120%.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. We're already seeing strong engineers and founders from Snap, Riot Games, Musically and others launch their new startups in LA.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Blizzard has been one of the founders of e-sports, an created many of the early e-sports games, and Riot Games is well known for League of Legends.

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Clinton Foy On CrossCut Ventures' New, $125M Fund

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We feel this is a great validation for the LA and SoCal venture market place, and for the startups and founders in LA. About sixty-six percent of those, or 2/3 of our investments, historically have been in Southern California and in the Los Angeles ecosystem. It's really all about them. Let's chat about your strategy.

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