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AUGUST 8, 2020

Now, the serial entrepreneur and startup investor is combining his two career paths under the auspices of Share Ventures. Share Ventures’ initial focus will be on two main areas, the future of living and the future of working. Image Credit: Share Ventures. ” Image Credit: Share Ventures.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2020

the Santa Monica developer of a bike sharing and store rental platform, has a new owner. Spinlister Inc.,

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JULY 14, 2020

Fountain Valley-based memory products giant Kingston Technology said that its partner in a joint venture, Phison , will sell the shares it owns in Kingston Solutions, Inc. which develops eMMC (Embedded Multi-Media Card) products. According to the two, the deal is worth NT$1,781,640,000, or approximately $60M. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s been a rough and perplexing six weeks for shareholders of downtown-based water infrastructure development company Cadiz Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2021

In the last few years I have seen a popular business model emerging which embodies a greater focus on social and environmental responsibility, and a new requirement for trust and sharing, as well as customer and community collaboration. Develop a personal-engagement extraordinary service mentality.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Culver City-based Envoy Technologies a startup developing programs to help make electric vehicles available to disadvantaged communities, has received $1.5M Envoy said the grant will go to develop a shared, electric vehicle program for disadvantaged communities in the greater Sacramento Metropolitan and the California Bay Area.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 30, 2021

Shopify has announced a new scheme for all of its App Store developers. Developers will not pay any commission on the first $1 million that they make in a given year. To our partners: on Aug 1st we are removing all revenue share on your first $1M. This scheme starts on August 1st of 2021. The best part? I literally cried.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Beyond Meat's stock dropped nearly $20 per share on the news, until a couple of hours later, when it was revealed that McDonald's is partnering with Beyond Meat on the development of the new alterative. Beyond Meat said it co-created the plant-based patty, which McDonald's announced without any mention of the partnership.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder has agreed to store data for its Russian users in Russia--and also allow the Russian government and intelligence agencies with that data, as part of an effort by the government there to force more tech companies to share data. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Whisper , which develops mobile apps for anonymously sharing confessions, has raised another $36M in funding. capital venture mobile confessoinal confession sharing secret whisper' The funding came from Tencent, Shasta Ventures, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

San Diego-based Gretel has raised a seed round of funding, to go towards its development of software which helps developers and engineers access and share anonymized data for developing applications. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Greylock Partners and Village Capital.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Nero , the developer of consumer video, photo, and media software management products which bases its U.S. operations in Glendale, has rolled out a brand new product to help users share photos on their iPhone and iPad. The new mobile software is currently free. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triller , which operates a social video sharing service which competes against TikTok, has raised $28M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Wednesday. In conjunction with the funding round, Triller said it has acquired UK-based MashTraxx , a developer of a machine learning platform for music and video editing.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Getaround , the developer of a peer-to-peer car sharing service, said it has officially launched in the greater Los Angeles area. Getaround said that car owners in LA can make their automobiles available to others.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

Irvine is getting its own fleet of self-driving, ride sharing vehicles, according to Hyundai , poowered by autonomous vehicle developers Pony.ai The new service, called BotRide , which offers up free ride-sharing for the community of Irvine, using a fleet of self-driving Hyundai KONA Electric SUVs. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Santa Monica-based Heard , a startup developing social sharing and networking software for iOS, Android, and the desktop said this week that it has launched a brand new "social exchange" software product aimed at letting people share and exchange content online. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In a bid to gain better market share among developer, Monrovia, California-based Parasoft announced Tuesday that it will begin giving out free access to its entire suit of test automation software to open source developers. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Los Angeles-based Albumatic , a developer of an iOS photo sharing application, has raised $4.2M albumatic venture capital photo sharing application' in a funding round, the firm disclosed this week. The funding came from RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Highline Venture Partners, Betaworks, and Box Group.

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JUNE 27, 2014

San Diego-based communications service and app developer Voxox said this week that it has expanded its iOS and Android apps to include new, group media sharing features. Voxox said its new, consumer mobile application now lets users share video, images, and locations with contacts and messaging groups. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2018

A report, published by Buzzfeed on Monday, says that Los Angeles-based gay dating and hookup app Grindr had been sharing information on users' HIV status with two app optimization services, coupled with their GPS data and information. Grindr also said Apptimize and Localytics were not sharing that data with anyone else. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging. Read more » Reprints | Share: Here now are responses, edited for clarity, from Mark Bowles, co-founder of medical diagnostics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms.

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MAY 12, 2020

Sir Richard Branson is planning to sell $500M in shares of Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , in a bid to raise cash to finance his other airline and hotel businesses. The $500M represents about one-fifth of Branson's stake in Virgin Galactic.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

San Diego-based Qualcomm has upped its offer for fellow semiconductor developer NXP Semiconductor N.V. in cash per share for NXP. per share in cash to acquire NXP. saying that it has increased its offer to $127.50 Qualcomm had previously offered $110.00 The bid raises Qualcommm's offer for NXP to a total of $44.0 READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2023

Almost every entrepreneur starts their journey by developing a solution, based on their idea of a new technology or required service. These idea and developer skills are necessary, but not sufficient, to build a business. Slowly but surely a more central and enduring leader identity will take root.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2017

the Venice developer of the Snapchat app, took a pummeling on the stock market on Tuesday, falling nearly 9 percent to close at $15.47

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APRIL 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based Forge Technologies , a startup developing job-sharing software which lets businesses share part-time labor, says it has rolled out at the Mall of America , the giant mall in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Irvine-based CalAmp , which develops telematics hardware and software used to track the location of assets and vehicles in real time, has jumped into the electric scooter sharing market, saying today that it is applying its technology to support the launch of scooter sharing services with partner Premier Wireless Solutions (PWS).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Grail is set to be acquired for $8 billion by Illumina, the gene sequencing giant that formed the cancer diagnostics developer and spun it out as a separate company four years ago. billion in shares of Illumina common stock. Those Illumina shares will have. Read more » Reprints | Share: billion in cash and $4.5

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. Please let me know if you can share this information with your members. We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 29, 2016

Thursday, August 4, 2016 -- OCBC 2016 Economic Development Forum. Join OCBC for the 2016 Economic Development Forum, Innovating Businesses: The Sharing Economy. Are you ready for social solutions to economic challenges? And what is government’s role in the new economy? See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my many years of experience in business, and recent work as a mentor to entrepreneurs, I have seen the business world change, and can relate well to his five success practices paraphrased here: Build the team from people with a shared obsession. For team members, the ongoing challenge is figuring out what not to do.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. Explain what Steereo is and how it works? The product is an app, available for them.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2020

The UC San Diego Health System has developed a diagnostic test that can determine whether a patient has contracted the novel coronavirus in about eight hours. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. So far, however, capacity has been limited: It can.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Los Angeles-based Plug.dj , an online music and video sharing service, has raised $1.25M in a funding round, to bolster the company''s product. The firm, which is led by Alex Reinlieb, said it will use the new funds to expand its team, develop its product, launch new services, and improve community support. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hermosa Beach-based Precipice Labs , a new startup developing mobile apps, has announced a new platform and SDK which helps mobile app developers add photo sharing to any mobile app. The platform handles everything from the photo gallery within the app to all the back-end database and image storage.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus , which has a "micro amusement park" which incorporates technology, games, entertainment, and more in its own physical, 38,000 square foot space, is offering up a new program which seeks to link with game developers.

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