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JUNE 3, 2015

Fountain Valley-based memory maker Kingston Technology said this morning that it has sold a Chinese subsidiary it owns, Payton Shenzhen Co., Ltd. , to Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Co., Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Payton Shenzhen Co. provides back-end wafer processing and supply chain management for Kingston. Kingston said the deal will allow Payton to expand into wider areas of semiconductor test and manufacturing, and attract other local cusotmers for its services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. But nobody said it would be easy. The road to business success is filled with challenges and frustrations that most aspiring entrepreneurs never even imagined. In my role as advisor to many startups, I try to prepare them for the inevitable bumps in the road ahead, as well as to provide practical guidance on h

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JUNE 3, 2015

Walt Disney has jumped into the world of connected toys and wearables, saying Tuesday that it has launched a new line of toys out of its Disney Consumer Products (DCP) division. Disney Consumer Products said its new Playmation line of toys allows those toys to synchronize with one another, harnesses motion sensors and wireless technology, and synchronize with the Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

After wrapping up work for a national professional women’s organization where I spoke to hundreds of women in all industries, in all levels of their profession, in all areas around the country on a daily basis; attended numerous amazing conferences and special events with panels of female tech founders, entertainment professionals and executives at all levels of their business over the past six months; and read about women who have achieved major success in their fields, I have discovered

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JUNE 3, 2015

Concerned about security of your passwords? Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which provides much of the behind-the-scene, two-factor phone authentication services for major Internet services, said today that it has launched a new website to help users ramp up security for over a hundred popular websites. The company--whose two-factor authentication is used by websites to add another layer of verification to user logins--released step-by-step guides for turning on two-factor authentication for Facebo

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JUNE 3, 2015

Sphero , the Disney Accelerator company known for developing smartphone connected, robotic balls, has scored a big funding round--in part thanks to its involvement with the accelerator. Sphero, which was part of the first class of the Los Angeles-based startup accelerator last fall, said Tuesday that it raised $45M in the funding round, which was led by Mercato Partners, and also included The Walt Disney Company and other strategic investors.

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