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JULY 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based educational robot developer UBTECH Robotics said today that it has rolled out a new, interactive robot kit, the Jimu Robot BuilderBots Kit. According to UBTECH, the new robot kit lets kids build two different robots, the GrabberBot and DigBot, or a robot of your own design.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Authentic Shops: Designer Shoes at Zappos.com. She’s been a prominent fixture at most of the shows. Ah, reality shows — they’ve made stars of socialites. Are you a fan of Olivia and her style? Saks Fifth Avenue.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

El Segundo-based GoGuardian , which develops software for the education market, has expanded into new offices in El Segundo, at the former Raytheon site. According to GoGuardian, the new office is in Raytheon's building R23, an industrial warehouse that previously had held engineering design and prototyping for Raytheon.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Portal Schools says it provides career-immersed education and where students earn high school and college degrees simultaneously.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

AdmitHub develops artificial intelligence software designed to help guide students to and through college, and in particular is aimed at helping at-risk students. The foundation's portfolio includes startups ReUp Education, Motimatic, Pragya Systems, Lrnr, and PackBack. Financial terms of the investment were not announced.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

socalTECH is a media sponsor of the LAVA Special Event: Meet the VCs on November 17th. This event series is designed to help investors and entrepreneurs engage with one another. It's a can't miss opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to connect with investors in Southern California technology companies.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

MCCi provides its IT services, system design, implementation, managed services, and support services the state & local government, education, law enforcement, financial services, and other verticals. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Century Park Capital Partners said MCCi has over 1,000 clients.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Assembly , the co-working and education startup which is extremely active in the Los Angeles area, has raised $70M in a new funding round. The funding came from Advance Publications and Wellington Capital Management, and also included the company's existing investors, IVP, Learn Capital, Maveron, Rethink Education, WTI, and others.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

iRise said it will provide software licenses to students at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP), via those schools'' graphic design and arts departments. iRise develops software which helps companies design corporate applications without software coding. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2014

Carpinteria-based online learning and video education site lynda.com said Tuesday that the company has updated its iOS application, completely re-designing the mobile app for the latest features of the operating system. lynda mobile learning education video courses course' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Carpinteria-based online education site lynda.com has tied into a new program from LinkedIn , to highlight courses that users of both sites have completed through the online learning site. Lynda.com provides a huge library of online video courses on software, web design, photography, and many other topics. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Carpinteria-based Lynda.com , which offers up an online learning and education site, has been awarded by the Department of Energy for its sustainability initiatives around plug in vehicles, the company said this week. lynda award electric vehicle education online learning energy' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , the online learning and education company backed by Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity, TPG Capital and Meritech Capital Partners, has bolstered its executive staff in the enterprise area, saying this morning that it has named Erik Nierenberg as General Manager of its Enterprise business. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Santa Barbara-based zuuka , the publisher of the iStoryTime interactive kids books and educational applications, has tapped an Apple vet for its new Creative Director, the company said today. The company said it has hired Paul Mueller-Bruehl to head up its design department.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Sony said it will award $10,000 towards tuition or other educational expenses as part of its 2013 G.I.R.L. Game Design competition. The company also will be offering up a paid internship to winners. Deadline to apply for the competition and scholarship is March 29th.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning it has expanded into the online learning market, and has acquired Creativebug , an online site which provides educational videos around art and carft instruction. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm was based in San Francisco. a month) or a la carte ($9.99

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

The company said it is combining such information as age, education, income and race, plus micro targeted survey information, to make "hyper-local" predictions of the race. The company said it is hoping to deliver--in only a few clicks--information which typically has taken "weeks of analysis" to generate. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Local Roots said its farm is built inside a 40 foot shipping container, which is designed to grow leafy greens equal to five acres of land, with up to 99 percent less water than conventional agriculture, and without the use of pesticides and herbicides. The startup is led by founder and CEO Eric Ellestad.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

lynda.com offers up an online education site where users can learn about a huge library of topics, ranging from everything from web and graphic design software to business topics, 3D animation, and more. education content equity private funding capital venture lynda' lynda.com said it was advised by Allen & Co. in the deal.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Interested in improving your skills in web design or photography while on the go? Lynda.com offers up a library of video-based training on everything from design software, to business skills, to photography and graphics. lynda android video library mobile tablet training learning education' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based NewsCrafted , a company which provides elementary and middle schools with professionally designed, high quality newsletters -- including content, has raised $1.1M angel education advertising custom newsletter publishing elementary school middle capital venture newscrafted' NewsCrafted is led by David Koenig.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Lynda.com , the online video education site which offers up a large library of video tutorials in computer software, business skills, design, and other areas, is in a big expansion today, saying that it has started offering up its products in Southeast Asia.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

Technical training and education provider General Assembly is opening up a new location in Los Angeles, its second, in Little Tokyo, the company said on Thursday. According to General Assembly, the new location--at 2nd Street and S. Central Ave. in Little Tokyo--will allow people located in the "heart of LA" to access its services.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Fuhu develops the nabi tablet, which it says is specifically designed for teaching kids state-standardized, core curriculum for kids in the K-5th grade. The funding was announced by venture debt provider ORIX Ventures. Specific terms of the venture debt deal were not announced. Fuhu's nabi is based on Android 4.0,

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Wish you could design and develop your own mobile games, but don't know how to write software? The new educational site is free to users. No problem! READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based Wi-fi and communications provider Boingo Wireless reports today that it has been selected by the University of Arizona, to design, build and manage a distributed antenna system on campus. boingo wireless wifi networking university arizona wildcats education network' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

The Center is designed to be a hub for the start-up community along the Westlake Village  Thousand Oaks corridor. As an educator, I am looking forward to innovations in online learning. gerhard apfelthaler education incubator' What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2021

It's segregated from where we are, but on campus in the same location, where they will be getting their education in that location. We care about consumer electronics, we care about consumer insights, we do a ton of engineering ourselves, and do most of the design of products ourselves.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. We have live connections to every federally registered apprenticeships, every accredited university and educational institution by zip code.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Students from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta have won a trip to Detroit, after scoring the top prize in a student contest which is part of Playa Vista-based X Prize Foundation's Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Education Program. All three teams are sharing $10,000 in prize money for their efforts.

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MAY 14, 2021

Lawson Endowment Fund, which will support Back and Indigenous students in game design and engineering. USC Games, the program at the University of Southern California focused on teaching students how to create videogames and to enter the videogame industry, says it has launched a new endowment, the Gerald A.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

will head the institute, which is designed to help launch student entrepreneurs. CSCU said its institute lets students work with and learn from local business leaders while the students design, launch and run their own businesses. According to CSUCI, Assistant Professor of Management, Cynthia Sherman, Ph.D.,

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2021

According to BEGiN, codeSpark's tools allow kids as young as four years old to design and code over 30,000 games and interactive stories every day, and was used in more than 40 percent of all US elementary schools in the past year. codeSpark was founded and was led by Grant Hosford.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. Topspin is backed by the Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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JUNE 10, 2013

Those representatives help educate providers on products, and deliver value to those offices. Dan Gilman: The value we add for them, is talking with representatives is education for them. We''ve designed RxVantage so that it''s simple to use, and because it''s in the cloud they don'' t have to install anything.

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JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. I was kind of naive about it, and it ended up being my wife--who is a world class designer--those two guys, and myself.

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