TechCrunch LA
JULY 29, 2016
Soylent’s Rob Rhinehart is facing criminal charges and fines up to $4,000 for allegedly refusing to remove a shipping container he placed on top of a hill behind his home in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The head of the meal replacement startup weirdly named after a movie where they ground up and served people in drink form was charged with unpermitted… Read More.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 29, 2016
Hollywood animation studio Titmouse is generating buzz for its forthcoming Fox sitcom “Son of Zorn.
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socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
Los Angeles is often thought of as just the city of entertainment and creative industries�but it turns out, it's a lot more. Krisztina �Z� Holly , founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), found out that�in addition to both the entertainment industry and technology industry, it's actually one of the biggest manufacturing centers in the country.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 29, 2016
Thursday, August 4, 2016 -- OCBC 2016 Economic Development Forum. Are you ready for social solutions to economic challenges? And what is governments role in the new economy? Join OCBC for the 2016 Economic Development Forum, Innovating Businesses: The Sharing Economy. Well delve into the industries most affected by the rise of the sharing economy and understand how residents, local government, and traditional and non-traditional businesses can work together moving forward.
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socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
The co-founder of Los Angeles-based Soylent , which is developing a food replacement drink intended to completely replace the need for eating, has been criminally charged by the Los Angeles City Attorney. Robert Rose Rhinehart Jr., the co-founder of Soylent, is being criminally charged with multiple counts over a derelict cargo container he apparently installed without permits--and refused to remove--on a property in Monetcito Heights.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 29, 2016
Virtual reality innovators, industry leaders, and consumers are about to gather in actual reality for the VRLA Summer Expo.
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Xconomy
JULY 29, 2016
How will humans and machines work together in the future? Will social robots be nothing more than robotic digital assistants like those on smartphones, or are there new opportunities and challenges when we put an AI brain into a robotic body? What are the risks and ethics around AI systems? Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month.
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
Los Angeles-based HyperLoop One , the HyperLoop transportation development company which is currently embroiled in a messy lawsuit between its founders, said earlier this week that it has opened up its first manufacturing plant, in North Las Vegas. The company said its Hyperloop One Metalworks is a 105,000 square foot tooling and fabrication plant, and will include space for engineers, machinists and welders to test its prototype systems.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 29, 2016
A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Too many entrepreneurs don’t know what to do at this point, largely accounting for that disappointing 50 percent of startups that fail in the first five years, according to Gallup.
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina has added Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Philip W. Schiller, to the company's board of directors, the company said on Thursday. Illumina said that Schiller is part of Apple's team that runs product marketing, developer relations, business marketing, education marketing, international marketing and App Store programs.
Xconomy
JULY 29, 2016
Quarterly biopharma earnings added a little heat to the already high summer temperatures. Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbV
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
Redland-based GIS and mapping software maker Esri has scored a win with the state of Michigan, saying on Thursday that the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) has selected the company to host 25 terabytes of data for the orthophotography and LiDAR data for the state. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. Esri said that data is used for more than 60 statewide mapping datasets built on its ArcGIS platform.
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
Los Angeles-based virtual reality developer SilVR Thread , and Lionsgate said today that they have rolled out a new, virtual reality title, in tandem with Lionsgate's new suspense thriller NERVE. According to the firms, they have rolled out a new, first person, virtual reality experience which lets users experience several "dares" from the film. The VR experience runs on Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard, and is available on the Oculus store, Android Marketplace and Apple iTunes.
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2016
Wish you had your very own, security robot? Los Angeles-based iPATROL has just rolled out a new, Wi-Fi enabled, roving robot called Riley , which lets homeowners see real time, high definition video from the robot from their iOS or Android phone, from anywhere in the world. The diminutive--and some could even say, cute--robot rolls around on offroad capable tracks, and has a motion-sensor activated camera, and build in microphone and speakers. iPatrol said its robot can be used to alert homeowne
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