502 Articles match "Angel","Entertainment"

The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community

Monday, August 30, 2010
Los Angeles-based Mail.com , the online media network run by Jay Penske, is being sued by The Gross Family Foundation, a New York-based charity, over its use of "FASHION ROCKS" to advertise and promote its own multimedia services. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in the New York Southern District Court (The Gross Family Foundation, Inc.
 
Saturday, August 28, 2010
After a career in NYC Steve joined Tech Coast Angels ; he quickly started leading deals. Deals mentioned: Vokle , Allylix , Masher Media , Vigilistics , HitFix , Exponential Entertainment Show #303 (41:45) Listen. Tags: Angel Investing Interview/podcast
 
Friday, August 27, 2010
Los Angeles-based GotCast , the online casting website run by Alec Shankman, reported this week that it had nearly 30,000 people register for the online casting of Sony PlayStation's "The Tester" series. Tags: cast casting videogame tester content hollywood entertainment computer sony thetester gotcast READ MORE>>.
 

The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment is announcing this morning that it has raised an additional $2.7M According to the company, the funding came from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Big Stage Entertainment develops technology which takes user photos and creates 3-D, facial avatars.
Los Angeles-based RealD , a provider of 3D theater projection technology, has signed on theater firm AMC Entertainment as a customer of the firm. Tags: reald theater projection hardware entertainment content According to AMC and RealD, AMC is set to deploy up to 1,500 RealD 3D screens in the US and Canada. READ MORE>>.
Los Angeles-based DTS , which develops surround sound technology, said today that it has signed on as an Executive Sponsor of USC's Entertainment Technology Center, an effort at the school to link entertainment, technology, and consumer electronics firms. Tags: entertainment technology center sound READ MORE>>.
Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. The search engine said one of the biggest investments is in entertainment, particularly navigating and finding what you are looking for from content on the web.
personally think that your background with entertainment would mean that you could do something interesting around product management for hybrid online and entertainment plays. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. can see that.
Hollywood-based Taltopia.com , an online social networking site for artists, said today that it is launching a new tool which aggregates casting calls and job postings in the entertainment and arts industry. The firm is backed by angel investors. Tags: taltopia casting calls hollywood entertainment content jobs READ MORE>>.
Los Angeles-based Ripe Digital Entertainment , a producer of digital video entertainment, has shut down, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily. Ripe Digital Entertainment was backed by Hearst-Argyle, Time Warner Investments, Columbia Capital, and Rho Ventures.
My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. Rather than write something just for Mark, I thought I would let everybody else know what the good, tech-oriented networking events are in Los Angeles. There is tech networking in Los Angeles!&#. This past couple years, I have been doing a ton of networking.
Amused that ABC thought there was any entertainment value in showing the entrepreneur-investor fund-raising process (yawn!), Actually, it’s pretty entertaining, and my kids and I are now sitting in front of the tube yelling “Take the offer you idiot!&# That’s pretty harsh by typical Angel terms. Burnett.
Greetings, Tony Karrer and I have been discussing ways in which we can get the community more engaged with the rest of Los Angeles. This list is by no means complete, and has a definite Los Angeles slant to it, so please point out any interesting events that we may have missed. Los Angeles PHP Developers – 4/13/2010.