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Drone Crash Takes Out Power Grid In West Hollywood For Three Hours

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For all of the promise and appeal of drone aircraft, the growing popularity of the unmanned aerial vehicles continues to cause unexpected problems--most recently, taking out the power to almost 700 customers of Southern California Edison in West Hollywood on Tuesday afternoon.

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Capsule Launches Digital Pharmacy In LA

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million residents across Los Angeles County and Orange County, with its pharmacy located in West Hollywood. The company has created a digital-first pharmacy which lets customers manage medications, chat with a live pharmacist, check on costs of medications, and more.

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Borrow Debuts New, Short Term Subscription EV Service

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West Hollywood-based automotive startup BORROW has launched a new, subscription service which gives users access to a pre-owned, electric vehicle (EV) through short term leases, the company said this week.

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Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional

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Serve’s program will focus on shorter trips in West Hollywood. “We’ll be able to learn from both of those pilots what customers actually want, what merchants actually want and what makes sense for delivery as we start to integrate our platform with AV companies,” said the spokesperson.

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Goodyear Launches Pilot Program With LA's Borrow

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Borrow--based in West Hollywood--provides short term, fully electric car subscriptions, and currently has 80 customers on the road -- it expects to have 750 cars in service by the end of the year. The software will forecast and automatically schedule tire maintenance and replacement. Borrow is led by Rodrigo de Guzman.

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Instacart Expands In Los Angeles

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Instacart is based in San Francisco, and helps connect "personal shoppers" who shop for groceries and deliver them to customers using their own transportation. The company has been active in Los Angeles since April 3rd.

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CityGrid Media Launches APIs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC which operates CitySearch, Insider Pages, and Urbanspoon, said Thursday that it has rolled out three new advertising APIs for developers.