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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Online e-commerce giant Amazon announced this morning that it is expanding at its "tech hub" in San Diego, and plans to create 300 new high tech jobs at the location. Amazon said the new office will allow it to more than double its tech workforce in the area. The new San Diego office is led by General Manager Nate Wiger.

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MARCH 26, 2018

A new study, released by the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , has surprisingly come out highly critical of the region's fragmentation and "lack of a compelling geographic center", saying those factors are keeping the region from emerging as a "tech hub as robust as Silicon Valley". READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 23, 2018

South Bay-based cloud computing service provider Reliam announced May 23 the acquisition of Boston-based G2 Tech Group for an undisclosed sum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? It’s no anomaly that Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science.

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MAY 8, 2017

Falcon Computing Solutions , a developer of software specifically aimed at accelerating big-data applications with hardware--including both GPUs and FPGAs--has raised $8M in a funding round. The company said it recently opened its new headquarters in Santa Clara, growing beyond its existing offices in Los Angeles and Beijing. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Malicious attackers perceive tech startups as vulnerable, valuable targets: startups often have fewer infrastructure protections and smaller IT teams than their more established counterparts, and multiple connections to larger companies with lucrative data. . Malware is software created to damage or weaken computer systems.

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JULY 1, 2019

RealWear , a developer of helmet-mounted, wearable Android computers, has scored backing from San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , in a $80M funding, the company said this morning. Qualcomm was already a strategic partner of RealWear, whose high-tech products include an eye-mounted projection display with voice control. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Now the city’s enterprise tech scene can claim a really big winner with Signal Sciences , the security monitoring and management company that is getting bought by Fastly , a provider of content delivery networking services, for $775 million. We’re thrilled to help lead the way for the broader tech community in Los Angeles.”

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

A 25-person startup developing advanced computing tools to speed up pathology work has raised its first institutional financing from a group of investors led by Intel Capital, the corporate investment arm of the chipmaker. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

an estimated five million jobs will be lost to tech innovations in the next five years, with two million new jobs created in these fields alone. of seniors majored in computer science, while 65% of businesses looking to hire need these skills. So, will tech take your job, or your offspring’s job or your grandkid’s job?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? It’s no anomaly that Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Santa Ana-based computer and electronics distributor Ingram Micro said over the holiday weekend that it has made a binding ofer to acquire Paris, France-based ANOVO , a provider of reverse logistics and repair services for high tech products. ingram micro anovo computer electronics merger acquisition' READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those of us who keep tabs on the tech world hear a lot about the challenges of hiring and retaining IT talent. According to a forecast by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , more than 1.3

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017. But beyond in-car technology, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) is also looking toward a role in the ecosystem of data-centric businesses.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

“There was this idea of having connectivity between tech and innovation… that’s when we formed M Ventures [but] that understanding of media and culture… that focus… was complimentary with what Marlon was doing at Cross Culture,” King said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’re in a new tech bubble!” By any objective measure the amount of money going into tech-enabled startups is up considerably (left chart) while the amount of money that VC funds have raised from LPs is also up significantly (right chart). If you fast forward one generation of tech companies it’s a completely different story.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In a big loss for the local high tech community, computer security software developer Websense --based in San Diego--is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, and is taking 445 jobs with it. payment from the state.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank. Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC? As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

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JULY 13, 2023

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MARCH 28, 2013

is hanging out at Santa Monica technology coworking and tech hangout ROC--thanks to a new online series being piloted by Amazon.com Amazon.com officially announced the greenlighting of a new, comedy pilot called Betas , centered around what it described as "four computer geeks and their quest for nerd fame". READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

If Apple released a $229 notebook computer, it would damage the brand and reduce the value of owning an Apple computer in the minds of existing customers. For example, the tech company, Asus, found this golden opportunity in the notebook market and moved in quickly to overtake all other manufacturers with low prices.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the on site technical support and computer repair service headed by Eric Greenspan, said Monday that it has switched its services to a new fixed-price, per-service model. The shift is a significant one for the firm, which previously offered up it services for an hourly service charge to its customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

I'm excited by some of the deep tech generated by UCSB, which has resulted in such companies as Apeel Sciences, Aurrion (acquired by Juniper) and Calient (acquired by Suzhou Chunxing Precision Mechanical Co.). Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Since 2012 it has raised more than $50 million to bolster the development and application of its tech, which has been used by pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as by universities and hospitals across 40 countries.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank. The boxes Mythic wants to break customers out of are their big.

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MAY 10, 2017

According to Dassault Systemes, the new effort is aimed at training the next generation of engineers with the skills most in-demand by aerospace, high-tech and transportation industries, and is being run by STEM education group Base 11.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2012

What was that gigantic gathering of tech journalists in Hollywood last night? Microsoft picked Hollywood's Milk Studios as the location of a super stealthy, invitation-only event to announced its Surface tablet computer. Just a product announcement event for Microsoft.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The firm has largely flown under the radar, but it has been investing in startups applying innovations in automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational biology, material sciences and robotics to industrial products and processes for the past two years.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2018

Rounding out our series of perspectives and prognostications for the new year , we asked people in Xconomy’s network about trust in the tech industry. Specifically, if you think public perception about the tech industry took a turn for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018?

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story. Managing Director: Derek Norton Investment interests: Connected consumer, Internet infrastructure, next generation e-commerce, digital media, gaming, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, consumer Internet, and some ad tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. Twitter spread through the tech crowds at SxSW and raised its first venture capital round led by Fred Wilson. 2007 was the watershed year. The iPhone was released.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

On a micro level, you can do your part to fix tech's gender problem by recruiting people with diverse backgrounds and place them in a company culture that rewards those who challenge the status quo. Did you know the first computer programmer was a woman? A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Software Secretaries.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2013

Tech-savvy users who like services like Zipcar, Uber, RelayRides, and Car2Go are used to being able to now rent and find cars by the hour or day in areas like Los Angeles. So it''s no surprise that airplane pilots are getting their own version of those services, targeted at letting pilots rent airplanes by smmartphone, tablet, or computer.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Make It Work also runs a show, Tech News powered by Make It Work, in Los Angeles on KNX1070. The firm's efforts in the radio area were originally a way to attract customers to the firm's home computer repair services; the firm has since extended into the radio content and podcast business, as well. READ MORE>>.

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