L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Hawthorne is scheduled to launch one of its rockets on a resupply mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station on Monday, July 18.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Drone maker DJI and Santa Monica-based drone mapping information provider AirMap said Thursday that the two are in a partnership, where DJI will use information from AirMap to help drone operators avoid wildfires. AirMap said it is now obtaining wildfire information directly from the U.S. Department of Interior, and pushes that out through its API and web apps--to reduce drone interference to firefighters.
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L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Video-game company Blizzard looks to play rough with developers of hacking mods.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Southern California companies raised $2.49 billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. The number for the quarter is the biggest amount raised in the region since the dot com boom, and a major bump over Q1's $957M.
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L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Wolfcom had hoped to nab the LAPD body camera contract for an image and business boost.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY has linked up a new startup, ZenRez , offering up last minute booking for yoga and fitness classes, ZenRez said on Thursday afternoon. According to Zenrez--which just announced $2M in a funding round from ARTIS Ventures, Summit Action Fund and Precursor Ventures--it is in a strategic partnership with MINDBODY, where its software integrates directly with MINDBODY's software.
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socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which makes a line of very user friendly, whole home music systems--said this week that it has opened its first, retail storefront, in New York City, which includes seven "listening rooms" designed to look like a living room, and which are enclosed so that users can get the full effect of listening to music using its systems.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
SpaceX launches ninth resupply mission, Jacobs Engineering Group sells off French subsidiary, Hyperloop pod competition postponed, and more.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Los Angeles-based online backup provider IDrive Online Backup has launched a new product, a hybrid, backup alliance aimed at the business market. According to IDrive, its 4TB, hybrid backup product both backs up data locally, as well as backs up that same data to the cloud, in case of a disaster. IDrive said it will charge $1000 per year for the device, which includes 4TB of cloud backup space to match the local storage.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Departed executives allege Hyperloop One working in leadership vacuum.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Laguna Hills-based Glaukos , which develops medical products for treating glaucoma, said late Thursday that its CFO, Richard L. Harrison, is planning to retire. The company said it has initiated a search to replace Mr. Harrison, who will depart the company sometime in 2017. The company said Harrison is retiring to dedicate more time to family and personal interests.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Toy giant Mattel makes a play for creative kids with pricey 3-D printers to be used at home.
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Vinny Smith , the founder of Orange County's Quest Software , has put his backing behind a new data integration sofware startup, Grow. Grow said this week that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding, which came from Toba Capital, the investment funding company run by Smith. Vinny Smith also joins the company's board as part of the funding. Grow is based in Utah.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Attorney looks to send a lasting message to Snapchat with a decency lawsuit filed on behalf of a boy.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 15, 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016 -- LA Tech Happy Hour @ Codesmith.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 15, 2016
Veteran CEOs are helping design app Homee reshape the furniture-buying business.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2016
One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.
Xconomy
JULY 15, 2016
The week started on a reflective note. Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. There were other goodbyes: Peter DiLaura said so long to Second Genome, the microbiome company he led for six years.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 15, 2016
Moving to college is hard. Back in the olden days you would have to pack your ink wells, quills and all manner of other useless crap just to survive the arduous task of learning. But NO MORE. Now these days – whether knowingly or not – there are a string of startups that are ready to make life easier for would-be students. Here are six of them.
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