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SpaceX Plans To Launch Internet Satellite Network In 2019

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to launch its own network of satellites to provide Internet access, starting in 2019, the company said on Wednesday. According to the company, in testimony with the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology, the company hopes to put the first of a constellation of 4,425 satellites into space in 2019, after placing a number of prototypes into space in 2018.

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HPTLC for the Identification of Botanical Materials

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 -- HPTLC for the Identification of Botanical Materials. Ventura BioCenter. This workshop will introduce current concepts of HPTLC with emphasis on the analysis of botanical materials, including: identification of raw materials and finished products, detection of adulteration (related species, chemicals), quantitative determination of markers, and investigations of shelf life.

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Universal Electronics Buys RCS Technology

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Santa Ana-based Universal Electronics announced this morning that it has acquired Rancho Cordova-based Residential Control Systems, Inc. (RCS Technology). RCS is a designer and manufacturer of energy management and control products. Universal Electronics will pay approximately $9M in cash plus earnout over the next five years. Universal Electronics said the acquisition will expand its portfolio of home sensing, monitoring and control solutions, including adding programmable communicating thermos

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Scam and Cyber Crime Defense

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 -- Scam and Cyber Crime Defense. Clean Technology Council. Detective Timothy Lohman reviews current trends and scam case studies. It's virtually impossible to exist in modern society without submitting personal information online. Most people can't get through a day without using the Internet to shop, pay a bill, or check their credit card balance.

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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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MomentFeed Enhances Paid Media Management Tools

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Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software used by multi-location brands to manage consumer experience interacting with their locations, has enhanced its Paid Media Manager software. According to MomentFeed, it has added a new native ad platform to the product, allowing brands to manage native ad campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.

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Designing UX with Willy Lai, recent Apple UX Design Director

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 -- Designing UX with Willy Lai, recent Apple UX Design Director. LaiÂ’s hands-on workshop teaches designers, product managers, marketing managers, and engineers how to design successful user experiences for software products and services across devices. Email willylai@willylai.com.

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Silicon Beach Report May 4: Soylent Raises $50 Million, Plans In-Store Sales

L.A. Business Journal

Soylent raises $50 million, plans in-store sales, Leaf Group acquires home goods e-retailer Deny Designs for $12 million, and Snap Inc.

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Radiology Partners Gets $200M In Venture Round

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El Segundo-based Radiology Partners , which offers up on-site, radiology services to hospitals and outpatient centers, has raised $200M in a growth equity funding round. The funding came from New Enterprise Associates, along with Future Fund. The company said the venture funding will go scale operations, invest in its programs, and expand in new and existing markets.

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ChromaCode Using $12M to Make Old-School PCR Tests More Powerful

Xconomy

The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing has greatly accelerated biomedical research and discovery, and brought the cost of sequencing a whole human genome to roughly $1,000. But what if you don’t need the whole genome? Carlsbad, CA-based ChromaCode was founded in late 2012 with the idea of boosting old-school molecular diagnostics instruments used in clinical diagnoses.

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Soylent Stocks Up With $50M More In Funding

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Los Angeles-based food alternative developer Soylent announced this morning that it has raised $50M in a Series B funding round, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and also including Tao Capital Partners, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. The company said that GV's Andy Wheeler joins the company's board with the funding. Soylent, led by Rob Rhinehart, said the funding will go to expand its current product offerings and support expansion efforts.

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Cytori Reboots Azaya Facility After Buyout, Looks for European Deal

Xconomy

San Antonio — Cytori Therapeutics is in the process of restarting a San Antonio manufacturing facility it gained in February when it acquired Azaya Therapeutics, the maker of nanoparticle-encapsulated generic drugs. The San Diego-based company now plans to find a European distributor for a drug that facility makes. Cytori (NASDAQ: CYTX ) is working to bring the manufacturing staff in San Antonio to about 20 as it validates the capabilities of the site, which will produce Azaya’s drug call

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Voxility Expands In LA

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Voxility , which allows telcos, data centers, hosting providers, and cloud services providers rent enterprise hardware and other services, is expanding in Los Angeles, in a deal with data center provider CoreSite. Voxility said it is expanding its current presence in the Los Angeles market, at CoreSite's two data center facilities--one at One Wilshire, and another 424,000 square feet nearby in downtown.

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How to use metrics and a dashboard

Berkonomics

Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer? I had that thrill when a student at the Richard Petty Stock Car School of Driving at a motor speedway in California. With a wide track, angled aggressively at the curves, and being told to hug the wall on the straightaways, there was little reference available to a novice driver as to speed. I followed my instructor’s car closely, but still could not tell anything about my speed, so that I could neither compensate for lags behind the leader n

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VC Confidence Holds Steady in Quarterly Survey, But Reasons Change

Xconomy

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn. That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at

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If Budget Holds, NIH Precision Study Could Be Flush As Volunteers Arrive

Xconomy

Until this week, many U.S. government science agencies and programs seemed destined for a big haircut, plus the loss of a limb or two. That included the Precision Medicine Initiative, an ambitious long-term study with the goal of recruiting 1 million Americans to volunteer health data. But in staving off a government shutdown, Congress pushed back hard against the White House’s funding proposal to cover the rest of the current fiscal year, which runs through September.

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