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Helinet Aviation Buys Shotover, Gets Funding

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Helinet , a provider of flight services to the entertainment, media, and other industries which is based in Van Nuys, said Thursday that it has acquired Shotover Camera Systems , a developer of a gyro-stablized, camera systems used for shooting aerial footage in Ultra High Definition.

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

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OK Go Super Bowl Video Illustrates Collision Between Content, Technology

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What do you get when you mix the desert around Mojave, two months in a Van Nuys warehouse, an MIT engineer, and a band which has risen to prominence as a YouTube phenomenon? However, it does illustrate the increasing influence of technology and online media on entertainment, and how much the two worlds are colliding.

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