Mon.Feb 03, 2020

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Where’s your sense of urgency?

Berkonomics

It is human nature to start in a new position with enthusiasm, lofty goals, new ideas, and a heightened awareness of those around us and their ideas for the business. After time in our job positions. And it is an unfortunate truism that most of us become a bit stale in our jobs after some time, even if we are most successful at it and appreciated by all who work for or with us.

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Hulu CEO Freer Steps Down

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The CEO of Los Angeles-based Hulu , Randy Freer, is stepping down from heading up the company, Disney said late Friday. Freer had been CEO since October of 2017. The move comes as a restructuring by Disney, as it continues to shuffle its business after its acquisition of 21st Century Fox. As a result of the shuffle, Hulu will now being managed as part of Disney's Direct to Consumer and International business, according to Disney.

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4 Customer Decisive Moments That Your Startup Can Win

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customers are much more in control of their buying decision, as they have more choices and more information than ever before. Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person.

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Truvian Sciences Names SVP Engineering

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San Diego-based Truvian , which is developing a benchtop, blood testing system to provide lab results for a number of health tests, said it has named Shane Bowen, Ph.D., as its Senior Vice President of Engineering. Bowen was most recently Senior Director of Scientific Research in the Department of Research and Technology Development at Illumina, where the company said he led the research team that conceptualized and developed the patterned flow cell format and manufacturing methods for Illumina'

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Cornerstone Payment Systems Buys Move Your Mountain

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Move Your Mountain , an online crowd-funding site which competes against GoFundMe, has been acquired by Tustin-based Cornerstone Payment Systems , Cornerstone said. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Cornerstone Payment Systems is a independent sales organization in the merchant processing industry. According to Cornerstone Payment Systems, Move Your Mountain lets individuals set up crowdfunding campaigns which have no deadlines or penalties, free of charge and with a lower f

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Scopely Partners With Hasbro, Mattel On Scrabble Game

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Los Angeles-based Scopely said this weekend that it has partnered with Hasbro and Mattel , to launch a new mobile game based on Scrabble. According to the company, its new mobile game, Scrabble Go will run on both Android and iOS. The new title was developed with game studio PierPlay. READ MORE>>.

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Smart Energy Water Teams With Wipro

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Irvine-based Smart Energy Water (SEW), a provider of cloud-based energy and water software, is linking up with international IT and business process automation giant Wipro Limited , to offer up a joint offering in the utilities area, the two said this morning. According to the two, they will offer up customer experience, workforce engagement, Internet-of-Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics based on SEW's products to enterprise customers globally.

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Western Digital Sells Off ActiveScale

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Western Digital , the developer of memory and storage products which has significant operations in Orange County, has sold off its ActiveScale object storage business to Quantum Corporation , the two announced this morning. Financial details of the sale were not announced. According to the companies, the deal was between Quantum Corporation and Western Digital Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp.

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Supporting Coronavirus Treatment Effort

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San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals says that its technologies are being used by a number of its partners, including Gilead Sciences, for developing treatments for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the new virus which has caused major disruption in China and is currently threatening to cross into countries around the world. According to Ligand, its technologies have shown potential or general applicability in the antiviral or therapeutic antibody areas.

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