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The biggest digital publishing company that you might not have heard of yet is about to get bigger in 2016 — Render Media, the brainchild of founders Eytan Elbaz and Vic Belonogoff, launched as the parent company of a roster of online content brands. Render Media (formerly Opposing Views) is the digital publishing parent company of four rapidly growing content destinations: Opposing…

Wednesday December 17, crown jewel of the IAC portfolio TINDER hooked up with FounderPanel (special thanks to organizers Aaron Abram (above) and Jad Meouchy + lead sponsor Osurv) to hold a holiday party with lightning talks and even a recruitment drive. Tinder was kind enough to host around 100 tech founders to discuss the philosophy and logistics behind the mobile dating platform’s…

On the surface, the idea seems preposterous — convince a few dozen tech companies all throughout Los Angeles to host an hour-long open house / semi-recruitment rah rah session in the form of thought-provoking salons, all in a single day — and yet, somehow, the damn thing worked. Bigtime. On Wednesday November 19, John Batelle’s NewCo hit Los Angeles, after similar events…

Recipe-swapping site BAKESPACE has been around for some time — the site launched in 2006 as the world’s first food-based social network — and has grown from a recipe-swapping site to a full-fledged multi-platform food empire, complete with a cookbook publishing tool and marketplace, a massive social following (including over a million followers on Google+), and a touring conference that hits a…

The City of Los Angeles has announced its intention to pitch the US Olympic Committee to host the 2024 Olympics.  other US candidates include Boston, San Francisco, and Washington.  LA is the only city in the batch with the pre-existing size & infrastructure to handle an event as large as the Olympics, which have run here in 1984 and 1932 prior. Among…