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JULY 14, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Congress' latest attempt to impose an "Internet sales tax" is just another misguided tax grab that will do more harm than good to American small businesses. The Remote Transaction Parity Act (RTPA), introduced by Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), purports to simplify sales tax collections while also leveling the playing field between brick and mortar businesses and online sellers.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2015

Women entrepreneurs interested in pitching their startups to local investors have until tomorrow, July 15th, to apply for the Women Founder's Network fast pitch, the group said Tuesday. According to the group, it is looking for women-led startups--including a founder or co-founder, or a CEO who is a woman--in any high growth industry to to pitch investors at an October event, with the opportunity to win part of $100,000 in prizes.

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JULY 14, 2015

We are excited to announce the GenHERation Summer Leadership Series 2015! During the months of July and August, GenHERation will be visiting 10 cities across North America to host leadership workshops for high school girls and rising college freshmen. These sessions will feature: More than 50 female executives (EY, Adobe, Yahoo!, Macy’s) from 12 different industriesInteractive skill-building activities.

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JULY 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based Realty Mogul , the online real estate crowdfunding site led by Jilliene Helman, said this morning that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Sorenson Capital, and also included Canaan Partners. The online marketplace for real estate investments said the funds go towards hiring more technologists and data scientists, and also for geographic expansion.

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JULY 14, 2015

Entrepreneurship is undergoing many technological changes. The rise of powerful new tools for automation and management of business tasks is taking the world by storm, because it lets one entrepreneur accomplish much more with their time than they ever could before. That opens up new possibilities for them in terms of what to do with their business and how long they can run it alone.

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JULY 14, 2015

Pasadena-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid Mastercard and mobile banking services, said today that it has opened up a new office in Shanghai, China, which will provide engineering and software development resources to the company. According to Green Dot, it officially opened up Green Dot Shanghai Software Technology Co. Ltd. at the Zhangjiang Hi Technology Park in the Pudong district of Shanghai, with 24,000 square foot of space.

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JULY 14, 2015

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in a new, $10M funding round for AeroFS , a developer of private cloud collaboration software. AeroFS said the Series B funding also included NHN Investment. Avalon's Rich Levandov represents Avalon Ventures on the AeroFS board. AeroFS is based in Palo Alto, California. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 14, 2015

Irvine-based Zadara , which provides storage-as-a-service to the enterprise, said it is extending into the Middle East and Africa with the deal with a IT provider in the region. Zadara said its platform is now being offered by Orixcom, which serves the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Zadara uses a hybrid model for enterprise storage, offering both public and private storage-as-a-service via its own set of appliances.

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JULY 14, 2015

Irvine-based consumer electronics maker VIZIO has renewed two patent and technology licensing deals it has with Dolby and Rovi Corporation. The two, separate agreements and announcements, cover use of technology in VIZIO's line of products. No financial details of the licenses were announced. In the Dobly deal, Dolby said that VIZIO has licensed its Dolby AC-4 standard for use in televisions for next generation broadcast systems and streaming Internet content.

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JULY 14, 2015

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system manufacturer Sonos said Monday that it has rolled out a nuber of minor updates to its streaming music systems. According to Sonos, the updates include visual indications when users have shuffled their playlists; ability to connect into Google Play Music's curated radio stations; and updates to TuneIn, which streams traditional radio stations from across the globe.

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JULY 14, 2015

San Diego-based aTyr Pharma , which is developing treatments for rare diseases, said late Monday that its President and Chief Operating Officer, Frederic Chereau, has resigned. In a tersely worded statement, aTyr said that Chereau has left to "pursue other opportunities". READ MORE>>.

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JULY 14, 2015

Dating website PlentyOfFish is joining up with Los Angeles-based dating service Tinder , over at Tinder's parent company-- The Match Group --after IAC said it would pay $575M in cash for PlentyOfFish this morning. IAC's Match Group--which also runs Match, OkCubid, and Meetic, in addition to Tinder--said the buy will help it expand its family of produccts.

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