socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. It is no secret that the number of private companies with valuations in excess of one billion dollars has skyrocketed since the start of 2014. As show in CBInsight’s chart, the number of such “unicorns” created during the first half of 2014 was roughly equivalent to the number created during the prior three years.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Irvine-based storage giant Western Digital and IBM said this morning that the two companies are in a patent acquisition and licensing deal, where WD will acquire more than 100 patent assets from IBM, and where the two will cross-license a number of patents. Financial details of the deal were not announced. According to the two, WD has acquired patents in the areas of distributed storage, object storage, and emerging non-volatile memory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

If you can’t provide a memorable customer experience, your startup won’t survive very long these days. According to many observers , we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. You now need more than loyalty from your customers -- they need to be your best advocates.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

NASA said late last week that Hawthorne-based space rocket firm SpaceX has tested its ability to land its astronaut landing pod, the SuperDraco, by firing landing engines. NASA said the tethered testing--conducted in McGregor, Texas--is aimed at bringing astronauts back to space with as much accuracy as landing a helicopter. NASA said that the testing is aimed at helping engineers refine landing software and systems on the spacecraft.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Los Angeles-based online backup service IDrive Online Backup has launched a new backup offering, aimed at companies running VMware installations. According to IDrive, its new VMware Backup produt is aimed at securing virtualized environments, supporting VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 and Vcenter. The company said the backup service supports both incremental and scheduled backup of virtual machines.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Culver City-based NantWorks , and founder Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., have detailed efforts on the company's Cancer MoonShot 2020 Program , to help make a huge step in the treatment of cancer. According to the company, it ran its first event to bring together the government, healthcare, biotech, scientific, and technology community to make major progress against cancer from January 15th to 17th in Santa Cruz.

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