TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfire, a social app designed to help mobile augmented reality (AR) gamers connect.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The automaker Tuesday said its Maven car-sharing service, which launched in 2016, will shut down for good. The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. GM’s experiment with car sharing is over.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Every mature company I know is looking for more innovation from within. They are painfully aware that tenure on the list of S&P companies is shrinking – from thirty-three years back in 1964, down to twenty-four in 2016, and predicted to be just twelve by 2027. Focused on progress rather than process.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Internet of things has been THE hot topic for the past couple of years and that trend continues into 2016 and beyond. More and more companies are working to give appliances, automobiles and even lightbulbs an Internet connection and the ability to be controlled remotely. The post Technology Trends of 2016 appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2018

Carlsbad-based satellite communications company Viasat announced this morning that it has named Dave Ryan as the head of its Space Systems business, heading up satellite system design, fabrication, test and operations of its global satellite constellation.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the companies, the new startup will develop a hyperloop system specifically designed for transporting cargo. In a launch in Dubai of the new company, Branson said he hopes to have those systems up and running within three years. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2017

Poway-based Cohu , which manufactures semiconductor test and inspection equipment, said today that it has completed its acquisition of Japanese company Kita Manufacturing Co. Kita Manufacturing is a designer and manufacturer of "spring probe contacts", test devices which are used in PCB board testing manufacturers. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 14, 2019

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Model Y on Thursday night at the Tesla Design Studio in Los Angeles. That’s a departure from previous events, notably the Model 3 reveal in March 2016, which prompted thousands of people to put down $1,000 deposits. The Model Y bears a striking resemblance to Model 3, and for good reason.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 16, 2016

This year, CES showed us that 2016 is truly the year of the electric vehicle. When companies weren’t working on new models – Tesla is so hard at work on the Model 3 that it didn’t have much of a presence at CES at all – they were unveiling their latest electric cars and concepts destined to undergo product development.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

The nation said that it would have sufficient water reserves to ensure manufacturing of semiconductors by companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing wouldn’t stop. They were even flagged in a 2016 Harvard Business School case study analysis. Some companies are doing just that. ”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. The issue of cyber-espionage, targeting companies like Target, Home Depot and Anthem Insurance, continues to be a concern.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

Electronauts is designed to deliver a social experience, in which players can create music for their surroundings. The new title is immersive, but designed to be played in a social setting, like a party. It’s a group experience the company envisions as something similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Shadow in real time.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. The latest iteration is the PlayStation VR device, a slimmer model that is designed to tie in very closely with PS games.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm has launched a new reference platform, specifically aimed at helping designers incorporate its chips into drone aircraft, the company said Thursday. Qualcomm said that at least one, consumer drone company--Yuneec has already committed to bringing a drone to market using the platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based movie information and ticketing provider Fandango has booted up a new, research and development group called FandangoLabs , the company said this morning. The new unit also will be working closely with design firm IDEO in its efforts, according to Fandango. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2016

With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. Examples of companies well known for their winning cultures inside and out include Apple and Google. Lead with purpose as a balance to profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so focused on finalizing their innovative product or service that they procrastinate on the formalities of forming the requisite new company until later. If several co-founders are involved before any company is set up, all will assume they get an equal share later, no matter how little they contribute.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 ” The unicorn gaming company has amassed increasingly larger rounds over the past three years on a nearly annual basis. .

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. There were exceptions. Further research may refine the method, they say.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 2016. “We go to the homeowner and say you have this property here.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2018

A detailed piece in Fast Company outlines how extreme sports (professional surfing, steep incline skiing, skydiving etc.) A 2016 Atlantic article hypothesized that the main reason that we’re decreasing in productivity as a workforce is that we’re not introducing new technologies quickly enough. Sounds amazing, right?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

www.science-inc.com), which has been behind such companies as Dollar Shave Club, August Home, DogVacay, Hello Society, Playhaven, and many others. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Today, we share the thoughts of Mike Jones , Co-founder and CEO of Science, Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform. “As But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. It even banned the consumption of alcohol in the office in 2016, as well as fornicating in stairwells.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If the shopping process, delivery, and support experiences are not designed-in and delivered consistently, no after-the-fact effort or product feature can compensate for the lack of it. The specifics and need for an overall service experience design were driven home to me in a new book, “ Woo, Wow, and Win ,” by Thomas A.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

I just finished a new book, “ Play Bigger ,” by Al Ramadan, et al , that outlines the how and why of new category design to create new demand where none exists, and be the king of that market. Overtly design the ecosystem as well as product. Make thinking different part of the company culture.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. There’s a new autonomous trucking company coming out of stealth. And yet, something was different. What else are we hearing? Deal of the week.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. All of the machines that those kinds of companies run on, over the last twenty years, have become automated.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. Beyond the tech titans, it’s the small startups that are dialing into what’s missing in the ecosystem right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2015

I took a moment to feel better about some of the things I’ve accomplished and my goals for 2016 vs. being too off put by the critics lest they win. Company culture matters such a great deal. Or I guess more appropriately Ricky Gervais came to the rescue with his Tweet. I stepped back and realized how true that was.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy. Spoiler alert: MCNs don’t exist. They will be hybrids.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

I had a few home runs early on and the company grew. The next MIW logo looked like this: We grew some more and eventually, after becoming the 42nd Citrix Platinum Partner, the company was sold to Push Computing LLC and this happened: Push landed KPMG who eventually would own a decent part of the company. Then another.

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