Live Nation has tapped Santa Monica-based point of sale system APPETIZE to power 4,400 fixed and handheld point of sale units across 25 U.S. amphitheaters and seven indoor venues, outfitting all concessions, and premium and portable areas of the venues. These venues include SF-area Shoreline Amphitheatre, Nikon at Jones Beach (NYC market), Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater, Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium in Denver and The…
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Woke up his morning to news that Live Nation executives Eric Garland and Ethan Kaplan have left the company amidst a restructuring of it Labs division. According to the Hypebot article, Garland & Kaplan’s contracts were up, and most of the division has been reassigned to Ticketmaster. Full article Garland came on board via Live Nation’s 2011 acquisition of Big Champagne, the…
Happy New Year! Part of planning for a strong new year involves taking a look back at the previous year’s work, something I did over the holiday break (well, in between bingeing on Mr Robot, Making a Murderer, The Big Short, multiple viewings of Star Wars, that is…). And even though the official numbers aren’t in yet (I leave that to real…
Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown has deep ties to technology, and has been at the center of the city’s technology boom since day one –- literally. In the 80s, with an early Apple II computer, McKeown became publisher of an international online newsletter and a local activist on Santa Monica’s Public Electronic Network. McKeown served on SMMUSD’s technology advisory committee, the City’s…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau released the preliminary schedule for the fourth annual Digital Content NewFronts marketplace, held in New York City, April 27- May 6, 2015, spotlighting the best in upcoming digital video programming for marketers and media buyers trying to reach engaged audiences. Click here for a complete lineup. The eight-day lineup will consist of a series of presentations from prominent media…
Tip of the hat once again to our pal Matt Sprowles at Madison Partners, whose team put together this map of Playa Vista, LA’s fastest-growing business community. Playa Vista, which is minutes in either direction from Venice and LAX, was the original home of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose; in fact, the original hangar has been used to film Iron Man and Avatar…
Techweek just announced its list of LA’s top 100 tech company leaders, the TECHWEEK100. Techweek Los Angeles will be at the Santa Monica Pier November 9-15 here. Topping the Techweek100 are Elon Musk of SpaceX, Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy of Snapchat, and Olav Nergheim of Fjord Ventures. The Techweek100 includes leaders from a wide array of verticals, including: VC / Accelerators…