Thu.Apr 14, 2016

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Avoid Hiring Victims – Look For These 5 Red Flags

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. We’ve all met them. The world’s out to get them. Every boss, coworker and subordinate is scheming to assure their demise. Setbacks are never their fault. They are a victim. Victims are bad enough in our personal lives, but they can be especially disastrous at a startup because a small company’s culture can be disproportionately poisoned by a single bad hire.

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Leadership: Sell the dream; Make the reality.

Berkonomics

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. Sometimes growth happens without a leader envisioning it, living it daily, evangelizing it to anyone who will listen.

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Mysterious Faraday Future Announces $1 Billion Factory In Vegas

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Faraday Future , the stealthy electric automobile company backed by a Chinese billionaire, broke ground on what it said will be a $1 billion facility in North Las Vegas on Wednesday, which it says it will use to build its yet-to-be-announced production vehicles. In an echo of Tesla Motors, the company said it will be using solar, wind, and geo-thermal energy to power its "environmentally conscious endeavor", and that it will use "sustainably sourced parts" to build its producti

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Move Over Kim Kardashian | Sophia, The Robot Is The New It Girl

Tech Zulu Event

With over 150,000 people drawn to Austin in this year’s SXSW only one was crowned as one of the most photographed woman in the festival. Nope it wasn’t selfie queen Kim K. West, it wasn’t even the first lady, Michelle Obama, who graced the stage as a keynote speaker, actually it wasn’t even a human being. The title goes to Sophia, the beautiful and brilliant humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics.

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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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Nimble Connects With Google Apps

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based customer relationship management and contact management software developer Nimble said today that it has connected into Google Apps for Work, via the Google for Work Partner Program. According to Nimble, the company said it has bundled Google Apps for Work with Nimble , automatically using information from Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, and Drie to helps support sales and marketing efforts for companies.

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BeBop Technology Expands Into Canada, Europe

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based cloud software developer BeBop Technology , which provides software for the media and entertainment industry, said today that it has expanded its operations in both Canada and Europe. The company said it has opened up a sales and support office in Vancouver, California; opened up a data center in Ireland; and tied with a British company, BASE Media Cloud, in London.

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Novogene Opens Gene Sequencing Center At UC Davis

socalTECH

San Diego-based Novogene , a provider of genomic sequencing services, said it has opened up a genomics sequencing enter at the University of California, Davis, in Sacramento. According to the company--which is headquartered in China, but has its U.S. headquarters in San Diego--the new center is expected to open in early May. Novogene said it provides whole genome sequencing and analysis of human, plant and animal samples for biomedical and agricultural research.

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