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JANUARY 18, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm and the People's Government of Guizhou Province are in a joint venture, focused on the design and sales of server chipsets in China, the two said on Sunday. According to the two, the joint venture is worth approximately $280M, and will be 55 percent owned by the Guizhou provincial government, and 45 percent owned by a subsidiary of Qualcomm.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

Wearable IoT World (WIoTW), based in San Francisco and heralded as the world’s first accelerator dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and emerging technologies, today has officially launched the U.S.-Pan Asia IoT Superhighway accelerator in Hong Kong. Closing a round of USD 4.5 million led by Radiant Venture Capital , the accelerator will focus on driving IoT innovation and entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and Asia while pushing forward IoT development globally.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Friday that it has acquired Demandforce , a developer of marketing software and services. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Internet Brands acquired Demandforce from Intuit, which had acquired Demandforce back in 2012. Internet Brands says that Demandforce will become part of its Health portfolio. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

Most entrepreneurs work long and hard to get a handshake agreement from an investor, and then tend to relax and wait for the check to clear. What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. The same is true of Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank investments you see on TV.

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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

Irvine-based semiconductor developer RFaxis said this weekend that it has unveiled a new family of RF, front end integrated circuits aimed at the Internet-of-Things and machine to machine (M2M) market. According to RFaxis, it has rolled out its family of sub-miniature, GhZ RF front end chips for use in the 700/800/900MHz spectrum for high power Industrial, Scientific, Medical (ISM) frequency band applications.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket launch company led by Elon Musk, saw a successful launch on Sunday of the Jason-3 mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), however, the company's attempt to land its reusable rocket on a floating "droneship" was less successful, when that rocket tipped over after landing--and exploded in rather spectacular fashion.

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