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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A group of Hollywood studios will collect $9.9M VidAngel's service removed "objectional" material from popular Hollywood films, and offered $1-per-movie streaming, all without any licensing agreements from those movie studios. from bankrupt "movie sanitizing" service VidAngel , and VidAngel will drop a appeal of a $62.4M

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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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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 23, 2021

Hollywood-based virtual reality gaming studio ForeVR Games Inc. raised $7 million in additional seed financing to grow its studio and slate of offerings.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2023

It's unclear how those cuts might affect the company's efforts in Hollywood, where Amazon has a significant presence.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Guitar maker Fender looks to crank the volume on sales with a new outpost in Hollywood.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2013

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CallFire joins the company from The Search Agency, where she was President of the company; she also had previously been at United Online, Ameriquest Mortgage, Paramount Pictures, Planet Hollywood and Universal Studios Hollywood. Palmer will head up business development, marketing, and sales for CallFire.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the mobile age, what is the key to connecting and engaging with users, and where does Hollywood''s creative content fit into the mix? What''s the connection between Seriously and Hollywood? You''ve got a situation, where Youtube is considered to have bigger celebrities now than Hollywood. He composed our music, too.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has slowed the visual effects industry, but Hollywood-based Arch Platform Technologies Inc. is helping to bring VFX artists back to their workstations, virtually.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

LegalZoom moved from Hollywood to Glendale. The 600 under-employed people of Hollywood who could have worked at LegalZoom but are now in Austin thank you. We can try to reinvent Hollywood film and TV (Hulu, Epoxy.tv, Blayze, Chill, TasteMade) or we can watch it migrate out of our city. The result? As does the mayor of Austin.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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JANUARY 2, 2014

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 2, 2021

East Hollywood-based startup W Tenth Co has raised $1.5 million to further develop an app to promote businesses owned by women.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands. I want to say that we are deeply committed to inclusion on screen and behind the camera and in our workplace,” Sarandos told the Hollywood Reporter. brb walking out.

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MAY 1, 2013

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

For all of the promise and appeal of drone aircraft, the growing popularity of the unmanned aerial vehicles continues to cause unexpected problems--most recently, taking out the power to almost 700 customers of Southern California Edison in West Hollywood on Tuesday afternoon.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Hollywood-based io/LA , the high tech and creative incubator and coworking space, has shut down, the first loss of one of Southern California's new crop of high tech gathering spaces. The loss was first reported by the LA Business Journal.

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MARCH 24, 2014

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 11, 2019

Hollywood-headquartered sales intelligence software outfit Nfusz Inc. announced Jan. 11 it entered a strategic partnership with Instapage Inc., based in San Francisco, to bring Nfusz’s interactive video

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Line 204, a Hollywood film and television production and rental company, said today hackers had stolen its client database. The extent of the breach is still being determined.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 12, 2013

Hollywood Gap. The nature of the creative process of legacy Hollywood movies separates fans from the content creators. The immediate and unvarnished nature of these various interactions between a YouTuber and their audience creates an intimacy that cannot be replicated by old-school Hollywood.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

In a "that''s so LA" moment, Los Angeles-based on-demand, valet parking app provider CurbStand is taking its valet parking service to the popular Runyon Canyon hiking trail in Hollywood, saying it will let users valet park their autos at the popular hiking/running trail this weekend.

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MAY 20, 2014

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JANUARY 31, 2019

In a move to again raise the question of it you truly own those digital movie and TV titles you have purchased, Ultraviolet , the digital movie locker service which had acted as a cloud-based digital "locker" location for movies and television shows, is shutting down. Ultraviolet said on its home page that it will close on July 31, 2019.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 9, 2021

West Hollywood-based StoryFile has raised $4 million to scale its storytelling app.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2014

Think Southern California''s tech industry is all about fashion, Hollywood, and content? If you look at the last few weeks of deals here, you might be surprised: it''s almost been entirely enterprise software. for its cloud-based medical offices software.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Airbnb said its "pop-up" houses--prefab houses being installed at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, The Cook''s Garden by HGEL in Venice, The Arts District, The Viper Room, and The Grove--will be bookable by users, and were designed by James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Moby, Molly Sims & Lake Bell and mother, and designer Robin Bell.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

of Hollywood announced on Thursday that Chief Executive Hemi Zucker will resign on Jan. J2 Global Inc. 1, 2018 to become a managing principle of venture capital firm OCV Management.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Israeli web development company Wix said last week that it had purchased popular West Hollywood-based online artist platform DeviantArt for $36 million, including $3 million in assumed debt.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

And when you live in a city that long, you're bound to find yourself at a Hollywood, celebrity-driven party. Still, there was something special about the Nextspace @ Amplify Grand opening on Wednesday night. Something very, established about it. I've lived in Los Angeles for ten years now. These parties are always the same.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 3, 2021

If YouTube viewing numbers are any indication, digital influencers and content creators have already demonstrated they can generate audience sizes worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster — but could they actually make hit film of their own?

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