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Virgin Orbit Develops Ventilator For Pandemic Response

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Long Beach-based space launch company Virgin Orbit has temporarily shifted its attention from developing rockets and its satellite launch systems, and applied its engineering skills to developing a new ventilator, designed to help in the battle against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Virgin Orbit Snags $9.5M Grant To Set Up UK Launch Facility

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Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit , the small satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has received a $9.5M grant from the United Kingdom's Space Agency (UKSA), to help the company set up a launch site in Cornwall, UK. READ MORE>>.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Even when I had babies, I started a company making baby clothing with designers for a few years.

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The 8th Annual Long Beach Soundwalk! | Art Mediums From Random Materials to High Tech

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This past weekend, the annual Long Beach Soundwalk took place across the blocks of downtown Long Beach’s art district. The artists provided exhibit participants an iPad with a custom-designed soundboard with a number of pre-loaded sounds with volume and activate capabilities. Really neat stuff.

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Apriso Wins Aerospace Customer

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Long Beach-based Apriso , which develops manufacturing operations management software, said yesterday that it has been selected by Messier Dowty, a member of the Safran Group, to help manage that firm's manufacturing and quality operations. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. What is Tradesparq?

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Interview with Clint Brauer, Greenfield Robotics

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How do you reduce or eliminate the huge amount of chemicals farmers need today in farming for crops such as corn, soybean, or milo -- and help overcome the growing resistance of weeds to those chemicals? I went to college at K-State, and then I started with a little Internet development company, W3 Design, which became USWeb Los Angeles.

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