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JANUARY 15, 2016

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a developer of cloud networking technology, VeloCloud Networks , as part of a new $27M funding round for that company. VeloCloud, which is based in Silicon Valley, said the new Series C funding was led by March Capital Partners, and also included Cisco Investments, New Enterprise Associates, and Venrock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2016

More than ever before, people want to buy from, work for, and invest in companies that matter. Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Los Angeles-based Unmute , which develops mobile apps to let people share and interact in live phone calls, has raised $2.2M in a seed funding, the company said Friday. The funding came from Greycroft Partners, and also included Comcast Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Betaworks, as well as the NBA's David Stern and Robert Kirkman of "The Walking Dead".

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

It’s a known fact that there are more men than women in tech, and those numbers aren’t getting better — in 2013, women held 26 percent of computing jobs in the United States, as opposed to 35 percent in 1990. Women are underrepresented in tech industries, and it has proven difficult to attract them to such a male-dominated industry filled with plenty of stereotypes.

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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 15, 2016

Riverside, California-based electronics components manufacturer Bourns has acquired the trimmming potentiometer business of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. , the two said Friday. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bourns said it acquired specific assets of that business, with transfer of those assets to begin in early 2016. Bourns is already a major manufacturer of trimming potentiometers, which are used on circuit boards for adjusting resistance in circuits; the company is

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. For CES gaming in 2016, VR devices were at the front and center even more prominently than before – but a few other fantastic upcoming products also made a splash. 1.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Santa Monica-based TigerText , the provider of secure messaging apps which are heavily used by the healthcare industry, has launched two new features aimed at bringing hospitals into the modern age. TigerText said its new products, TigerPage and TigerFax, will allow its users to receive and respond to pages and faxes from their smartphone. TigerText said that pagers and fax machines are still widely in used in hospitals in the U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Southern California Edison is planning a big electric vehicle charging station push here in Southern California, saying it plans to install as many as 1,500 new electric vehicle charging stations in its service territory, and offer up rebates to users who install them. SCE said it is spending $22M to install stations at workplaces, campuses, recreational areas, and apartment and condominium complexes as part of the effort, which will provide rebates of between 25 and 100 percent of the cost of t

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , the commercial spaceflight and tourism venture of Sir Richard Branson, may not be able to deliver you to space just quite yet. But, when they do, it apparently will be in style. Virgin Galactic and Adidas, via its Japanese design house, Y-3, is designing fashionable flight suits for Virgin Galactic's future astronauts and pilots, the companies said today.

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