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LA-based MarketerHire upgrades its service matching remote marketers with companies

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MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. . Brands can typically fill their open positions in as little as 48 hours, the company said.

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GameFly Wins Ruling Against Postal Service

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Los Angeles-based games-by-mail service Gamefly scored a victory today in a dispute with the U.S. Postal Service, after a U.S. appeals court ruled that the the Post Office unfairly gave Netflix and Blockbuster special services in sorting DVDs. The Post Office apparently was providing hand-sorting of DVDs for Netflix.

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Netflix Expands In Cuba

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Online video streaming service Netflix --which has significant operations in Los Angeles--opened up its service in Cuba on Monday, one of the first companies back into the country after President Barack Obama''s move to re-establish diplomatic ties with the Communist country. Netflix will charge $7.99 READ MORE>>.

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Disney-ABC Television Links With Netflix On Lost, Other ABC Shows

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Disney-ABC Television and movie rental service Netflix reported this morning that they are in a deal, which will make "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy," and other ABC television series available via streaming to Netflix customers. Tags: disney television netflix shows content hollywood.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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.” There’s a lot at stake for Microsoft, Google and Amazon as entertainment companies look to migrate to managed computing services. While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience. .”

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. billion.

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