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Andrés Barreto Andrés Barreto (born in 1987) is a Colombian-American entrepreneur. Originally from Colombia, he now lives in New York City. His latest company, Onswipe, is a software platform that enables publishers and advertisers to reach large audiences through touchable devices like the iPad. Barreto has also launched several startups, including Grooveshark (defunct), PulsoSocial, and Cloudomatic.
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Grooveshark Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming service owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States. Users could upload digital audio files, which could then be streamed and organized in playlists. The Grooveshark website had a search engine, music streaming features, and a music recommendation system.
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Sinergia Sinergia (Spanish for "Synergy") is a Chilean band that plays experimental rock with influences from alternative metal, a style that themselves define as "birdy metal" by the incorporation of "pajaronas" (birdy) lyrics; which is Chilean slang referring to people that are a bit vague or slow to understand. Sinergia plays with the mixing of a strong rock sound with an electronic base, funk bass lines and special sounds for each song.
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Sinergia (album) Sinergia ("Synergy") is the self-titled debut studio album released by Chilean rock band Sinergia, independently in 2001 consisting of 12 tracks; by Sello Azul label in 2002 consisting of 13 tracks and by La Oreja label in 2003 consisting of 14 tracks and 3 music videos for the singles ""Chilerobot"", ""Concurso"" and ""Mujer Robusta"". The album was produced by Andrés Godoy, father of the band's drummer Bruno ""Brunanza"" Godoy.
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Companisto Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website. It was founded by the lawyers David Rhotert and Tamo Zwinge in June 2012, in Berlin. Investments are between 5 and 500,000 Euros per investor with no limit on how much funding a startup can raise. Companisto allows investors to invest in startups. In return, they become shareholders and are entitled to a share of any profits, as well as potentially benefiting from an exit. Companisto has over 70.000 investors from 92 countries.
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Fito &amp; Fitipaldis Fito & Fitipaldis (] ) are a Spanish rock band, formed in 1998. It was created by Fito Cabrales with the intention of publishing songs which were not in the style of his other band, Platero y Tú. Its style is a mix of rock, Soul, swing, etc. By October 2014 the band's sales had overcome 1.600.000 discs .
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ILike iLike was an online service that allowed users to download and share music. The website made use of a sidebar that is used with Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. The program and sidebar are not required in order to use the site but allow for ease in discovering new artists. The site attracted around half a million users in the first four months after it was launched. According to the latest statements by the company, over 60 million consumers registered to use iLike either directly on iLike.com or using the apps built by iLike for third-party social networks such as Facebook. iLike also built a "post-once publish-everywhere" dashboard for artists – major label artists as well as independent artists.
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Andrés Durán (born February 20, 1966), is a Colombian rock historian, a radio broadcaster and producer of Blues, Writer of Book "Rockestra", Rock and Metal programs at Radiónica Station in Bogotá Colombia. He also is the creator and producer of the on-line radio station "El Expreso del Rock".
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Ralph Irizarry Ralph Irizarry (born July 18, 1954) is a Grammy award-winning percussionist, bandleader, and studio musician who has played on jingles, film and television scores, and whose distinctive playing style has made an indelible mark on those artists with whom he has performed. In addition, he has performed, recorded, and toured with the likes of Harry Belafonte, David Byrne, Celia Cruz, Paquito D'Rivera, Juan Luis Guerra, Earl Klugh, Israel Lopez "Cachao", Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon and many others. Irizarry has also appeared on the "Johnny Carson Show" and the "David Letterman Show", as well as Don Francisco's Sabado Gigante and Raul Velasco's Siempre en Domingo. Irizarry was featured in the film "The Mambo Kings" and in documentaries such as "Belafonte's Routes of Rhythm", Cachao's "Como Mi Ritmo No Hay Dos" and "The Life of Rubén Blades".
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Groove (music) In music, groove is the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or sense of "swing". In jazz, it can be felt as a persistently repeated pattern. It can be created by the interaction of the music played by a band's rhythm section (e.g. drums, electric bass or double bass, guitar, and keyboards). Groove is a key of much popular music, and can be found in many genres, including salsa, funk, rock, fusion, and soul.
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Spinnup Spinnup is an online digital music distribution service that launched early 2013. Spinnup is a DIY distribution platform that offers an aggregator service to musicians and unsigned artists so they can distribute their music worldwide via online retailers such as Deezer, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Tidal, Rhapsody, Amazon Music and Google Play. The site also has a network of ‘scouts’ who are looking to discover and mentor new talent on Spinnup and help them find a record deal. As a Universal Music owned company, the scouts have a relationship with A&Rs at Universal Music's labels and meet with them regularly to pitch music and artists they find on Spinnup.
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Bambi Francisco Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator - one of the largest social networks dedicated to high-tech entrepreneurs and investors. Vator properties include VatorX, a platform licensed by organizations to host entrepreneur communities and competitions; VatorNews, which provides news, analysis and editorials about entrepreneurship and innovation, and Vator Events, which runs the popular Splash startup event and competition.
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Andrés Cepeda Andrés Cepeda (born July 7, 1973) is a popular Colombian singer and songwriter. He was born in Bogotá, the youngest of five children. He displayed an inclination towards music from an early age, studying piano since the age of 5. He composed his first piece at the age of 12. His musical career began as the lead voice of Poligamia, a latin rock-pop group which he founded with some friends during his adolescence.
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MobiKwik MobiKwik is an Indian company founded in 2009 that provides a mobile phone based payment system and digital wallet. Customers add money to an online wallet that can be used for payments. In 2013 the Reserve Bank of India authorized the company's use of the MobiKwik wallet, and in May 2016 the company began providing small loans to consumers as part of its service. The company launched its MobiKwik Lite mobile app in November 2016, designed for users of older 2G mobile networks and for those in areas with poor internet connectivity. In November 2016, the company reported having 1.5 million merchants using its service and a user base of 55 million customers.
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Groove Coaster Groove Coaster is an iOS rhythm game developed by Matrix Software and released by Taito Corporation on July 28, 2011. Groove Coaster Zero is a free-to-play updated version of the game. It is a spin-off franchise to "Space Invaders".
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Conexion Latina Conexion Latina is a salsa music and Afro-Cuban jazz orchestra based in Germany, which was founded in 1980 by trombonist Rudi Fuesers. From the beginning, the orchestra was formed of musicians from different Latin American countries like Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Peru, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Venezuela, creating an original mixture that gave the band its unique sound and made it Europe's leading salsa orchestra. Among the musicians that have played for Conexion Latina are Benny Bailey, Dusko Goykovich, Larry Harlow, Nicky Marrero, Bobby Shew and Bobby Stern, between others. The quality of Conexion Latina's music is also due to first-class arrangements made by Oscar Hernández, Alberto Naranjo and Marty Sheller, to name just a few. The band also has been invited to selected festivals around Europe, sharing stages with artists such as Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría, Rubén Blades, Irakere, Willie Colón and Eddie Palmieri.
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José Ramón Barreto José Ramón Barreto (born August 2, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuela actor and singer.
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Niko Bolas Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant and business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio. In 1989, Bolas founded Fakespace Music with Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall and Christian Greuel, which, in 1995, developed the Soundsculpt Toolkit, a software interface that allows music to communicate with the graphical elements of virtual reality.
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Paulo S. L. M. Barreto Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (born 1965) is a Brazilian cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers Anubis and KHAZAD, together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also co-authored a number of research works on elliptic curve cryptography and pairing-based cryptography, including the eta pairing technique,
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Ritmoteca.com Ritmoteca.com was an online music store and early pioneer in the online downloadable music space. Founded in Miami, Florida in 1998 during the Dot-com bubble by Ivan J. Parron, and Ricardo Decubas, the company was the leading Latin music download website and an early predecessor to Apple Inc.'s now highly successful iTunes business model of selling digital music downloads over the Internet. Mr. Parron founded the company after operating the successful web development company Internet Marketing Consultants, which designed Ritmoteca's revolutionary graphical user interface for retailing online music. Ritmoteca.com aggregated exclusive digital distribution rights from over one hundred independent Latin music record labels and amassed a library of over 500,000 music tracks and videos, including exclusive digital distribution rights to catalogs of some of the worlds top renowned Latin artists such as Marc Anthony, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. The company was also the first digital Latin music companies to sign digital distribution agreements with the major record labels, signing agreements with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Bertelsmann Music Group and Warner Music Group. These agreements gave the company digital distribution rights for artists such as U2, Madonna, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias and Jay-Z. The company grew to as many as 200 employees through investments from institutional and "angel" investors including Bain Capital. The company forged key strategic alliances with companies including Microsoft, MSN, AOL, Pressplay and Creative Labs, becoming the go-to source for Latin digital music. The company was poised to launch an initial public offering when the Dot-com bubble stock market suddenly crashed on April 14, 2000. That event, combined with the emergence of the company Napster on the music scene, enabling people to trade music online for free, made it virtually impossible for the company to raise additional venture capital and continue its rapid growth. The company evolved into a distributor of digital music rights and eventually closed down in 2005.
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Artfutura ArtFutura is a festival of digital culture and creativity that is celebrated annually in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Ibiza, London, Montevideo and several other cities worldwide. It came about from the confluence of interests of some of the pioneers of the Cyberculture movement from the 90s, among whom were, Rebecca Allen, William Gibson and Montxo Algora, who presently continues to direct the festival.
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Paul Budnitz Paul Budnitz (born September 14, 1967) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Kidrobot, a retailer of art toys, apparel and accessories, and Ello, an ad-free social network. He also owns Budnitz Bicycles in Burlington, Vermont.