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Report: Drones Tracking Your Mobile Phone In The San Fernando Valley

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Think you see some suspicious drones overhead in the San Fernando Valley? No, apparently-- according to a report --they are a Singapore startup''s effort to sell your information to marketers. drones wifi wireless tracking fernando valley angeles losangeles' READ MORE>>.

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More Free Rides In LA From Taxi Magic

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The battle for mindshare--and riders--in Los Angeles is continuing today, as Taxi app provider Taxi Magic announced that it will gain offer up free taxi rides to people who uses the company''s app to hail a cab, through Friday, May 9th. READ MORE>>.

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Mid-Year Economic Forecast

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Please join the Los Angeles Business Journal and San Fernando Valley Business Journal as we present our 2016 Mid-Year Economic Trends and Forecast. Friday, July 15, 2016 -- Mid-Year Economic Forecast. DonÂ’t miss this opportunity to be a part of the conversation.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. And while the market’s reaction was negative, there were folks who noted that the Model Y’s likeness to the 3 meant it was getting serious about selling vehicles. Now it’s about to get bigger.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? One way is developing testing tools and infrastructure around that market, to help those manufacturers in their research and development, which is just what Calabasas-based GridTest Systems (www.gridtest.com) is doing.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers.