socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

How do you apply virtual reality (VR) technology, and turn it from just a nifty technology trick, to something which is truly a lifelike journey you can experience with friends? Santa Monica-based SPACES (www.spaces.com), led by CEO Shiraz Akmal and a team of entertainment veterans from Dreamworks Animation, is hoping to do that with a series of physical attractions, powered by VR technology.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 18, 2018

Downtown-based car-sharing platform HyreCar Inc. announced July 17 that it will partner with DriveItAway.com Inc., a used vehicle auction platform based in Cambridge, Mass. The collaboration is designed to allow independent car dealerships in 34 states and Washington, D.C. to list their vehicles on the HyreCar platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Cloud Services , the cloud services arm of j2 Global , announced this morning that it has named Timothy Smith as its new Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Backup Business Unit. Smith joins j2 Global from Western Digital, where he had been Vice President, PLatforms Business Management. Smith had also served as an executive at EMC Corporation for more than 10 years, and also was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and the Credit Suisse First Boston Technol

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 18, 2018

AdQuick raises $2.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

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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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based Brat , which operates a content production studio that creates teen content for the online, streaming market, has raised $30M in funding, the company deta‎iled on Wednesday. The funding came from Anchorage Capital. The company, founded by Rob Fishman and Darren Lachtman, is behind "Chicken Girls: The Movie", which is available on YouTube specifically focused on teenagers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

I’m sure you know a few people at work who are always “too busy,” but never seem to get much done. For many of these, it’s an excuse to decline new work, impress others, or gain sympathy. For others, it’s a legitimate complaint, indicative of being out of control or not managing their time. If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to on

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next Wednesday. President Trump and the European Union’s top executive officer, Jean-Claude Juncker, are slated to discuss economic issues, security, and other topics on July 25, as The Guardian reported.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based AdQuick , the outdoor advertising marketplace founded by veterans of Instacart, said this week that it has raised $2.1M more in funding. The new funding came from Initialized Capital. AdQuick, which launched its marketplace for outdoor advertising space, launched its services in 2017. Matt O'Connor is founder and CEO at AdQuick. AdQuick previously raised $1.1M in its seed funding in July of 2017, in a round also led by Initialized Capital, and also included VTF Capital and Hays

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based media brand Pocket.watch , which creates content for kids, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, led by Viacom, the company said today. As part of the funding, Viacom Media Networks COO Sarah Levy joins the company's board of directors. Pocket.watch says it develops eerything from small-screen video to big-screen blockbusters, games, toys, and other products focused on kids.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Santa Monica-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Nimble said today that it has signed a global distribution agreement with Microsoft , which will create a bundle of Nimble's CRM tools with Microsoft's Office 365. According to Nimble, it has added six "significant" Microsoft Channel Partners to its partnership program as a part of the effort.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Anaheim-based Willdan Group , which provides professional and technical consulting services and software, said this morning that it has been selected by Entergy Corporation in a software deal. According to Willdan, Entergy is using LoadSEER, a modeling application developed by its software unit Integral Analytics, for electric grid data and analytics.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Culver City-based videogame maker Seismic Games has been acquired by Pokemon Go maker Niantic , the two companies announced this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Seismic was founded in 2011, and has received backing from such investors as DFJ Frontier and venture capitalist Tom Matlack. The acquisition is the fourth acquisition in the last year by Niantic, which pointed out Seismic's work with such partners as Marvel, FoxNext, Sony Television, Alcon Interactive,

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