Silver Lake Grabs Large Minority Stake of WME to Push Digital Initiatives

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley. Again.
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Greylock Goes Hollywood, Adds to WhoSay Funding

A start-up that counts megastars like Tom Hanks, Steven Tyler and Ellen DeGeneres among its active users now has a high-profile Silicon Valley investor: Greylock Partners.
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WhoSay Brings Social Media to the Stars (Video)

Have you noticed that lately an increasing number of tweets from famous people are tagged “via WhoSay”? What is this WhoSay app — and if it’s good enough for Steven Tyler and Tom Hanks and Eva Longoria, can you use it too? Not unless you’re famous.
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When Marc Met Mike–Andreessen Interviews Ovitz

Put one of Silicon Valley’s legendary power players together with one of Hollywood’s and what do you get? A must-see interview of Michael Ovitz by Marc Andreessen.

The Striking Writers and the Striking Lack of Web Hits

Why does the idea of a marriage between Hollywood writers and VCs make me slightly queasy? But that’s just the feeling I got when I read the always sharp Joseph Menn of the Los Angeles Times, who penned an interesting piece earlier this week about writers in Hollywood turning to venture capitalists as the strike [...]