Wed.Jan 04, 2017

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Esri Takes On Connected Car Market

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Redlands-based GIS and mapping software developer Esri is dipping its toes into the connected car market, saying that it is showing off use in the connected car market at CES. Esri said on Tuesday that its mapping and spatial anlytics technology will be shown off at an automated driving demonstration in conjunction with Microsoft, NXP Semiconductors, IAV, Cubic Telecom, and Swiss Re.

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Stay Stoked: Business Travel Doesn’t Have To Suck

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. I made many mistakes when I was building my startups. Though the outcomes were financially lucrative, […]. The post Stay Stoked: Business Travel Doesn’t Have To Suck appeared first on John Greathouse.

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Vertical Management Systems Acquired By NewSpring Holdings

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Pasadena-based Vertical Management Systems , a developer of financial technology and software for managing fiduciary risk, fee transparency, and revenue reconciliation, has been acquired by NewSpring Holdings. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Vertical Management Systems (VMS) provides its software to large financial institutions.

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Former Snapchat Executive Alleges App Misrepresented Growth Numbers.

L.A. Business Journal

The former head of Snap Inc.’s user growth filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the company is cooking those numbers.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

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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Kingston Digital Pushes USB Flash Drive Capacity To 2TB

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Fountain Valley-based solid state memory maker Kingston Digital the flash-memory arm of Kingston Technology, has rolled out a new, high capacity USB flash drive which offers upto 2T of storage space. According to Kingstone Digital, the USB flash drive is now the world's highest capacity USB flash drive. Kingston did not announced planned pricing on the drive, which it says will be available in February.

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Silicon Beach Report Dec. 4: Faraday Future Unveils Its Production Car

L.A. Business Journal

Faraday Future Unveils Its Production Car

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Edico Genome’s Deal with Dell EMC Fits Partnership Strategy

Xconomy

San Diego’s Edico Genome is now in its fourth year as a startup, and well into the hard slog of striking partnership deals, generating revenue, and building a business. Founding CEO Pieter van Rooyen started Edico with the idea of developing a specialized processor to accelerate the way genome sequencing data gets processed. Today Edico says it has joined forces with Dell EMC to provide a service that combines Edico’s analytical tools with Dell EMC’s data storage and cloud-based computing capabi

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Ring Launches New Ear Piercing Floodlight Cam

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Are you sick and tired of the package thieves who have been wandering your neighborhood? The latest product from Los Angeles-based connected doorbell maker Ring might give them pause--or at least, a splitting headache. Ring said on Wednesday that it has launched a brand new product, the Ring Floodlight Cam , which features built in floodlights, two-way audio, and a 110 decibel siren.

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HLI Adds Cynthia Collins as CEO, Venter Moves to Executive Chairman

Xconomy

Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter, who disclosed last month he’s being treated for prostate cancer , is moving into a new role as executive chairman at Human Longevity (HLI), the San Diego genomics startup he co-founded in 2013. Cynthia Collins, who previously led GE Healthcare’s cell therapy and purification and analysis businesses, is replacing Venter as CEO, according to a statement from HLI today.

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Faraday Future Unveils FF 91, Its First Production Car

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Los Angeles-based Faraday Future , the secretive electric car startup funded by Chinese investors, has unveiled its first production car , the FF 91 , at a showy event a CES in Las Vegas. Faraday Future also started accepting reservations for the yet-to-be-produced vehicle, letting would-be buyers put down $5000 towards a new FF 91. Pricing on the new car has not been announced.

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Every Startup Needs Intellectual Property To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Teledyne Nabs Department of Defense Contract

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Teledyne SeaBotix , the developer of underwater, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) used by the U.S. military, said on Tuesday that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar, operational capability upgrade contract for the Department of Defense. Exactly amount of the upgrade contract was not announced. The company said the win came through a distributor, Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS).

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For 2017, Concerns on Immigration, Net Neutrality, & Cyber Warfare

Xconomy

I have many concerns about how the upcoming Trump administration will impact the overall tech economy. Some of my biggest worries are as follows: 1) More restrictive immigration laws will make it even harder for startups (as well as more established companies) to attract and retain the highly skilled workers that they need to be competitive. 2) Repeal of current net neutrality laws will give bigger companies an unfair advantage over smaller companies — thereby fundamentally changing the le

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Frequency Announces Deal With TiVo

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Los Angeles-based Frequency , the developer of a cloud-based video distribution and curation service, said this morning that it has inked an agreement with TiVo Corporation , to bring the company's video service and programming to TiVo's pay TV and consumer platforms. Financial terms of that deal were not announced. Frequency and TiVo said the use of Frequency's metadata would help enhance content discovery on TiVo and enrich the entertainment experience consumers have the TiVo platform.

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Trump Administration Needs To Set U.S. Cybersecurity Mandates

Xconomy

Cybersecurity is the penultimate existential risk to the United States—economically, militarily, socially, and as we have seen recently, politically. The nature of cyber is asymmetric, and given the size of the U.S. economy, our reliance on intellectual property, and the leadership role the U.S. plays in the Community of Nations, we have a lot more to lose than we have to gain in the digital wars of cyberspace.

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CBRE Group Buys Floored

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Los Angeles-based real estate services and investment firm CBRE said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired Floored , a developer of interactive 3D graphics software for the commercial real estate industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Floored, which was based in New York City, develops cloud-based, interactive 3D graphics software which lets commercial real estate brokers virtually configure vacant space, create virtual tours, and visualize and edit floor plans.