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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 -- 2018 Hollywood Entertainment Technology Festival. The Hollywood Entertainment Technology Festival (HETF) is an exciting international event bridging the US and China, with expert speakers and panel discussions on trends in entertainment technology, cross-border opportunities, and investments.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Century City-based Cinedigm said late Tuesday that it has sold its Hollywood Software division to an outside team of investors, led by David Gajda, one of the company''s original founders. Hollywood Software''s tools are used for managing digital theatrical distribution and exhibition. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

A report from the WSJ says that Amazon is "failing to dominate" in Hollywood, and is running issues with "lackluster releases" and strained relationships with its producers. Amazon runs all of its content business and production out of the Los Angeles area, as part of Amazon Studios. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2017

Monday, July 24, 2017 -- Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood. Global Ventures Summit Pre-Event Mixer. Connect with the founders of the Global Ventures Summit with special guests from Silicon Valley's venture capital funds and LA's social media influencers. See [link] (more)

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JULY 29, 2019

Are you one of those early adopters who opted for all digital purchases of Hollywood movies, using Ultraviolet?

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JUNE 28, 2018

Can artificial intelligence help Hollywood unlock more creativity from storytellers? Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content.

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MAY 26, 2016

Coworking space operator Blankspaces says it is planning a big expansion in mid-June, and plans to open up a new location in Hollywood. According to the company, the new space will have 14,500 feet, and will be its biggest location so far.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

Internet video streaming and rental service Netflix is in a major expansion in Hollywood, and has signed a lease fo 200,052 square feet on the Sunset Corridor, the company said Thursday. ICON said the deal for the Netflix offices is the largest office lease signed to date in Hollywood, in terms of square feet.

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JULY 10, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Hollywood Tech Happy Hour. Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Apparently, according to Variety, that source is increasingly Hollywood , and its stars and executives. The article did not quantify how much Hollywood money is going to technology venture capital and private equity. Looking for some funding for your new Menlo Park venture capital fund? Image courtesy of Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

Los Angeles-based Hollywood Software, Inc. Hollywood Software's products are installed at such studios as 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate, according to the companies, with its digital cinema management software being used to manage more than 15,000 screens worldwide. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

An effort to raise an investment fund from Hollywood, to specifically invest in technology companies, looks to have pulled back its effort to court celebrities and actors, according to a report this week. financial investment celebrity capital venture hollywood fund dominate' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

It seems like combining Hollywood and venture capital is the rage in Silicon Valley this week, as news came Tuesday of a new, seed-stage venture capital fund--run by former Mashable blogger Ben Parr--looking to raise money from Hollywood celebrities for access to hot, Silicon Valley Startups. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Venice-based Snap and Burbank-based NBCUniversal have partnered to form a new, Snapchat-centered, Hollywood studio, which will specifically create content for Snapchat, the two said this week. According to the two, the new studio's ownership will be split evenly between Snap and NBCU, and will be based in Santa Monica.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 -- Hollywood Tech Happy Hour -Tech Save America. See [link] (more)

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APRIL 18, 2013

In a turn from the usual formula of Silicon Valley investors backing a Hollywood, celebrity-driven startup, a Silicon Valley startup has scored the backing of a group of Hollywood insiders. thehunt online shopping fashion hollywood ecommerce visual photo social venture capital' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Santa Monica-based parking information provider ParkMe said Tuesday that it has expanded the depth of its information in the Los Angeles area, by adding parking information in Hollywood and Venice. parkme hollywood venice angeles xerox parking data' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2015

Woodland Hills-based Hollywood Software , a developer of enterprise software used by studios, independent movie distributors, and exhibitors to run their distribution and exhibition businesses, said it has acquired Digital Cinema Systems, Inc. , hollywood software digital cinema systems merger acquisition content movie projection system'

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JULY 19, 2011

The latest, videogame firm looking to get into Hollywood looks to be Rovio , the maker of the popular videogame Angry Birds , according to a report today. Rovio is not the first videogame maker to court Hollywood, however, it might just be the first one spawned out of the new, smartphone mobile games market and the iPhone.

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JULY 17, 2017

AT&T says that it is bolstering its operations in both Silicon Beach and Hollywood, as part of its $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner. According to AT&T spokespeople at the company's SHAPE Tech & Entertainment Expo, which was held at the Warner Bros.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Hollywood is helping to pave the way for commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles, thanks to a FAA ruling Thursday letting the film and television industry use drones in their filming efforts. hollywood drone flight aerospace airplane filming content movie movies mpaa' The announcement was made by U.S. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based MySetLife , developer of an iPhone application that allows filmmakers to network with other industry contacts, and also manage things like invoices, timecards, and more, said Tuesday that it has partnered with the Hollywood Reporter, FilmContact.com, and Los Angeles-based Invested.in.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

youtube hollywood channel content creator video funding investment' YouTube said that its earlier effort to fund multi-channel networks have resulted in eighty-six of those channels among the top 1 percent of its most popular content. Image: YouTube Space LA. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Watch out, Hollywood--a report from Variety says that YouTube stars are more popular than mainstream celebrities with American teenagers aged 13 to 18. youtube hollywood celebrity smosh finebros pewdiepie katyperry video star celebrities popularity teenager' PewDiePie, KSI, and Ryan Higa. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The FAA said Monday that it has granted eight more regulatory exemptions for commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), nearly all of them to a set of linked companies in Van Nuys which film for Hollywood. Purwin, who has a long list of credits filming for Hollywood. drone hollywood purwin content license aerospace'

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Irvine-based Oculus , the virtual reality headgear and technology maker which is now part of Facebook, announced Monday at the Sundance Film Festival that it has created a new unit to help Hollywood make virtual reality movies. oculus rift virtual reality content hollywood immersive sundance' READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hollywood studios are jumping on the trend of the VOD market. Nevertheless, Hollywood is still finding it difficult to adopt new trends fast enough. I am not as bold as to say that by next year, or even in the next 10 years, we’ll see tumbleweeds blowing through the studios of Hollywood. For example, Warner Bros.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Sunday, November 6, 2011 -- Hollywood Hack Day. Hollywood Hack Day is a two-day event that brings developers from all over Los Angeles and Orange County together to create the next generation of entertainment applications. Come with a team and an idea, or form one on the spot.

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

Saturday, November 5, 2011 -- Hollywood Hack Day. Hollywood Hack Day is a two-day event that brings developers from all over Los Angeles and Orange County together to create the next generation of entertainment applications. Come with a team and an idea, or form one on the spot.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 13, 2013

With no industry connections or family ties, talent agent John Ferriter applied basic entrepreneurial principles to reach the pinnacle of Hollywood''s elite. You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I need to figure out business.''".

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MAY 10, 2016

Amazon--which has made waves in Hollywood through its content efforts for Amazon Prime Video--said it also plans to give away one million dollars a month to the top creators who submit content through Amazon Video Direct (AVD).

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JUNE 19, 2012

What was that gigantic gathering of tech journalists in Hollywood last night? Microsoft picked Hollywood's Milk Studios as the location of a super stealthy, invitation-only event to announced its Surface tablet computer. Just a product announcement event for Microsoft.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 17, 2020

Burbank-based Entertainment Partners has acquired Culver City-based software developer SyncOnSet Technologies Inc.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? ” Guess what, Hollywood. And I’m also funding a new breed of entrepreneurs bringing tool sets to this new Hollywood ecosystem that has developed. As humans we like story telling.

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MARCH 10, 2016

In a crossover between the worlds of Hollywood special effects and e-commerce, a new startup, Avametric , said it is looking to fuse "Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Fashion" by using the software behind visual effects rendering to render clothing and accessories on computer models of consumers.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

A West Hollywood-based fintech announced the launch of a banking program Dec. 20 aimed at building Hispanic wealth through stakes in the crypto sector.

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