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ivestream www.livestream.com t: 646 495 9707 111 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Announcing Livestream Store Livestream and Web Summit Announce Exclusive Partnership to Broadcast Production and encoding solutions to go live. Global Technology Events Livestream to provide exclusive live video coverage of Web Summit events with real-time chat, photo, NEW YORK, NY – 10/27/2011 – Livestream, the market leader for real time event coverage, has opened a marketplace for itssocial producers media and and clients text to purchaseupdates. the technology needed to work with the Livestream platform. It was announced today by Max Haot, CEO of Livestream. The Livestream store (http://store.livestream.com) is an outlet for anyone looking for the equipmentNEW YORK, needed NY to film– 6/15/2012 and broadcast – Market their events leader live. for live event coverage, Livestream (Livestream.com) Thetoday store announced offers certified its HD agreement encoding solutions with Web and productionSummit (WebSummit.net),equipment including: a series of leading technology events across Europe to provide live viewing experiences of the Web Summit series of events. The partnership• HD Encoders will provide - Hardware an internationalthat turns the video audience into a format with athat unique can be live distrib viewinguted in realexperience-time on the featuring internet live through the Livestream platform. video with real-time chat, photo, social media and text updates. • Production switchers - Hardware used to mix audio and video feeds, add graphics, and encode or output a final mix The Web Summit, founded in 2010 by Paddy Cosgrave, is a series of technology events across Europe that• hasCamera attracteds - HD -overSDI and 10,000 HDMI peoplecameras cumulatively.to output sharp highThe definition flagship video event is in Dublin each October and has featured the founders of Skype, Twitter and LinkedIn among many others. 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