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APRIL 4, 2018

Users of popular dating app Tinder might have just lost that opportunity for a hot date they were setting up tonight, after widespread privacy changes by Facebook on Wednesday apparently took some logins offline for Tinder users. Tinder--which is developed in Los Angeles--told users a "technical issue" was preventing logins into Tinder, and that it was working on the issue.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Friday, April 6, 2018 -- International Entrepreneur Rule. What is it? Why does it matter? And where does it stand? MAKE IN LA AND LUMA LAUNCH. Why it matters: 51 percent of our nation's $ 1 billion + VC backed companies have at least one immigrant founder. This shows the importance of immigrant entrepreneurs to the US economy. Jeff Farrah- General Counsel of the National Venture Capital Association will join us to explain what the International Entrepreneur Rule is and where it stands.

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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. Agilent said the buy will help it grow in the diagnostics space and build a complete routine clinical NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) workflow.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 -- Pasadena Tech Happy Hour. We are working to build a collaborative and engaged tech community in Pasadena to be inclusive of people who may not have easy access to more established tech hotspots. This community will be a place where an entrepreneur can find their next lead investor, a place where a designer can showcase their artistry and the developer can demonstrate their technical expertise; a place where anyone looking to get involved in their local tech community c

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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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APRIL 4, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap has been sued by BlackBerry Ltd. , in a patent infringement suite filed with the U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles)--the result of a patent litigation push by BlackBerry Ltd. as it seeks new revenue sources. The lawsuit, BlackBerry Ltd. v. Snap Inc., looks similar to another lawsuit filed by Blackberry last month against Facebook, alleging Snapchat's app uses messaging technology owned by the company.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Fullscreen acquires Reelio; Facebook data breach bigger than initially reported; Spotify opens at $30 billion.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 -- Los Angeles Digital Summit. The Definitive Digital Marketing Gathering.

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APRIL 4, 2018

San Diego-based venture investor Versant Ventures said today that it has sold its Inception 5 program, focused on regenerative therapies for multiple sclerosis, to Roche Holdings. Financial details of the sale were not announced. According to Versant, as a result of the acquisition, it will launch a new company, Pipeline Therapeutics , a successor company led by the same operating team, to identify next generation neuro-regenerative therapies.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Two of the most popular terms in urban planning today are smart cities and clean energy. These concepts naturally go hand-in-hand. As cities get smarter, they use energy more efficiently and in a more controllable fashion, and they are better able to incorporate intermittent clean energy sources. Cities, and the power grids that support them, can use traditional power generation and stationary energy storage to support intermittent resources like wind and solar, but the lowest-cost solution for

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APRIL 4, 2018

Huntington Beach-based commercial rocket developer Rocket Lab is planning its very first, commercial launch for later this month, the company said late Tuesday evening, saying it will launch two nano-satellites into space on Friday, April 20th. According to Rocket Lab, the payloads on the "It's Business Time" mission will include nano satellites for Spire Global and GeoOptics Inc., built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.

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APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments. But it turns out VCs weren’t the only driving force behind the change in fundraising prospects for the young companies now inventing chips suited for artificial intelligence tasks, and daring to compete with giant chipmakers such as Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) and Nvidia (NASDAQ

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APRIL 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen announced this morning that it has acquired Reelio , the developer of an influencer marketing platform focused on the millennial and Gen Z market, helping brands, advertisers, and agencies identify social media influencers. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Acording to Fullscreen, Reelio uses data-driven automation and AI to connect brands and influencers.

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APRIL 4, 2018

When Versant Ventures, Roche, and Inception Sciences came together in 2014 to identify drugs that could repair damaged neurons, they were placing a bet on technology that amounted to a promising tool in a broader quest to find new ways to treat patients with multiple sclerosis. Now, San Francisco-based Versant is offering validation of that bet, although many details remain under wraps.

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APRIL 4, 2018

SpaceX 's Dragon has successfully docked at the International Space Station this morning, and was officially bolted to the ISS at 9:00am ET, according to NASA. The Dragon is delivering around 5,800 pounds of science and cargo in SpaceX's fourteenth resupply mission to the space station, and will be at the space station for about a month. The SpaceX CRS-14 mission was launched from Cape Canaveral on Monday morning.

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