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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. We don't "retrench and pullback" when the market cools down and we don't "move upstream" as we experience continued success. Scott Alderton: Without a doubt my personal favorite is the Amazon Echo.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. Welcome to the 1990's!

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? regularly now, but my favorite is actually not very technologically advanced at all.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

According to Qualcomm, its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, has launched a new reference platform called Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight , which is specifically aimed at use in consumer drones. 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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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

As is the tradition at socaltech, over the holidays we publish contributions from some of the movers and shakers in the community, with their reflections on the past year and their thoughts on the upcoming year. Richard Wolpert: You can�t spend too much time worrying about the broader markets. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

El Segundo-based PCM , which provides information technology products to the business, government, and education markets, said very late Wednesday evening that it has acquired Provista Technology Services Ltd. PCM said it made the acquisition through its UK-based subsidiary, PCM Technology Solutions UK, Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Carlsbad-based Zingle , a developer of mobile messaging and customer experience software for the hospitality, travel , and retail markets, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Medallia , a provider of customer experience management software. Medallia said it will pay approximately $42M in cash for Zingle.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies announced early this morning that it has acquired English machine vision and image sensor technology developer e2v technologies plc. Teledyne said that e2v had asles of 236 million pounds for the year ended March 31, 2016. The deal is worth approximately $789M. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

government to developing DNA sequencing technology to help physicians by providing rapid diagnosis of antimicrobial resistant infections and influenza. contract was awarded in 2016 by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). According to the company, it completed the first phase of a $51.9M

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APRIL 4, 2018

Lasergen , a startup developing technology for the DNA sequencing market--and which has an office in San Diego--has been acquired by Agilent Technologies for $105M, the two said late Tuesday. Agilent already owned a 48 percent ownership stake in Lasergen, as part of an investment it made in March of 2016.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based Social Reality (SRAX), which developing digital marketing and consumer data management software--and more recently, has tried to launch its own cryptocurrency called BIGtoken--said it is restating its results all the way back to March of 2017.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2017

San Diego-based antenna technology developer Airgain announced late Sunday that it has acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Antenna Plus , a developer of antenna products for the mobile and automotive fleet market. in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. The Boca Raton, Florida-based startup said the lead investor in the round was Ron Zuckerman, a technology entrepreneur and investor.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Episona has been offering up its test since October of 2016. The company said the new funds go towards commercial expansion of its product, increase sales and marketing, and for further technology development. The company is led by Dr. Alan Horsager.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based digital marketer Connexity has acquired consumer data collection company Hitwise , from parent company Experian , the company said this morning. STG and Connexity said they will be separating the two businesses throughout 2016. The two combined deals were worth $47M plus up to $5M in earnout. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which is by far Southern California's most active acquirer of technology companies, announced this morning that it has acquired six more companies. j2 Global said it acquired Fonebox , Everyday Health , CudaMail , Unified eMail , Abaxio , and GreenFax , all during Q4 of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2016

NantHealth said it intends to list on the NASDAQ Global Market as NH. The filing is the first IPO filing for a Southern California technology firm so far in 2016. The IPO is being underwritten by Jeffries, Cowen and Company, First Analysis Securities Co., NantHealth reported a net loss of $71.6M in total revenues for 2015.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Our interview this morning is with Vahid Manian , the Chief Operating Officer of Morse Micro (www.morsemicro.com), a semiconductor startup which is developing chips for the Wi-Fi HaLow market. We are focused on developing Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah, which was solidified back in 2016. It's a new Wi-Fi starndard.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Nazar--who successfully sold his last startup, Docstoc, to Intuit back in 2013--told his contacts that he is "gearing Startups Uncensored back up" and plans a new series of fireside chats in 2016. for a new startup , Comparably, which lets users search for information on pay for different job titles, broken down by market and gender.

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MARCH 23, 2016

A new survey, released this week by Silicon Valley Bank, finds that even as the availability of venture capital in Southern California is tightening, and lofty unicorn valuations are declining, startup entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the future of technology in the region.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

As is a tradition for socaltech, we feature reflections on the past year from those in the community all during the last week of the year. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? www.science-inc.com).

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Fandango said it hopes to release the first products from the FandangoLabs efforts in 2016. Fandango said it hopes to release the first products from the FandangoLabs efforts in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Techand the markets overall--has enjoyed a surprisingly long stretch of prosperity. Overall I am optimistic for 2018.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

KeyInfo has also been a big sponsor for socaltech over the years). For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. Who or what do you think had the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2015? When we returned to the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ICO madness through 2016 and 2017 was bad, initially, for the industry as a whole, because there were lots of crooks and charlatans, but now, the SEC has cut through a lot of the BS. Anthony Citrano: The only thing I've been longer into than technology is cars. Our ultimate goal, which is number three, is to become a market maker.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have an article from Dr. John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. Parker told us about the origins of its technology, and how the company hopes to use its technology to make a big impact on fossil energy use at heavy industrial facilities. That was a $1.5

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JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. So, after a fifteen year career there, I saw a tremendous opportunity here to build out that technology. What's been the biggest challenge, in tackling this market?

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AUGUST 18, 2017

How did the company and its technology come about? Marcus Filipovich: I joined as Chief Executive Officer in January of 2016, however, our founders are really the pioneers in the area of using eye signs for drug enforcement. They set aside what they were working on, and started working on bringing this technology to law enforcement.

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MARCH 9, 2017

That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. I had seen all three of those watershed opportunities in technology, and was part of them.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected. versus New Zealand?

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