Wed.Jun 26, 2019

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Songtrust adds another 55,000 artists to its rights management service

TechCrunch LA

Over the past year, Songtrust has added another 55,000 artists and songwriters to its rights management service. The company, a subsidiary of Downtown Music, a publishing and rights management firm that manages rights for artists such as John Lennon, One Direction and Santigold, now has 205,000 artists on its roster and has 2 million songs it tracks.

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CapLinked Launches Blockchain Auditing Product, TransitNet

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Los Angeles-based software developer CapLinked , which is led by Eric M. Jackson, has launched a new product for helping companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency area. According to CapLinked, the new product, TransitNet is a new software product to manage title verification, financial reporting, and corporate governance for blockchain-based securities and digital assets.

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Riot Games Responds to DFEH Investigation

L.A. Business Journal

West Los Angeles-based game developer Riot Games Inc. responded today to a June 12 announcement from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing that it was opening an investigation into the company's management practices.

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Liquid Death Turns Critics Into Creativity With Heavy Metal Death Song

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Liquid Death , the canned water brand which is backed by Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , has released a hilarious video which turns a collection of videos of its critics into a "heavy metal death song". The brand--which is backed by Science, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone; Michael Dubin, the founder of Dollar Shave Club; and Jen Rubio, the founder of Away, among others--has so far raised $2.25M in funding.

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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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5 Reality Checks On Running A Charitable Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

A common misconception I often hear in the startup world is that non-profits are easy and safe, since they don’t have to pay taxes, and they don’t have to make a profit for their shareholders. In reality, from the feedback I get from non-profit executives, exactly the opposite is true. Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue C

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Video: Fireside Chat with Jamie Siminoff, Founder of Ring

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Jamie Siminoff, the founder of Ring (now part of Amazon), talks about how he came up Ring working on projects for another startup in his backyard, the ups-and-downs of startup life, and more. Our (blurry!) video of the Fireside Chat with Scott Alderton (of Stubbs, Alderton and Markiles LLP) at the Precellerator Demo Day, June 25, 2019. (Stubbs, Alderton and Markiles LLP is a sponsor of socaltech.com).

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Viasat Backs New UC San Diego Data Science Institute

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Carlsbad-based satellite communications company Viasat says it is backing a new institute at the University of California, San Diego, focused on data sciences. According to Viasat--which both operates it own satellite communications networks, as well as the equipment used to connect to those networks--it is a "Founding Industry Partner" for the new UC San Diego Halicioglu Data Science Institute (HDSI).

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Connected Classroom Technology and Essentials for K-12 School Districts

Southern California Edison Blog

Connected classrooms are part of a rapid trend to leverage technology to bring learning into a more national and global sphere. Instead of interacting only with their peers sitting next to them, connect classroom technology enables students to reach out to their peers around the country or world, broadening their access to both people and information.

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Amgen Lines Up Behind Two Bay Area Startups

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Thousand Oaks-based Amgen is helping two, Bay Area startups, by offering up lab space and access to its scientific and business leaders, as part of a program called the "Amgen Golden Ticket", the company said on Tuesday. According to Amgen and MBC BioLabs , they have awarded two startups, Regenecor and Nitrome Biosciences , with access to one year of lab bench space and access to core facilities at the life sciences incubator run by MBC BioLabs in San Francisco.

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Encoded Nabs $104M, Illumina’s Help, to Push Gene Therapy’s Limits

Xconomy

Despite the progress of gene therapy—a cutting edge medicine promising long-lasting effects from a single treatment—it remains a crude and limited tool. Startup Encoded Therapeutics has raised $104 million to join the race to expand gene therapy’s reach. The South San Francisco, CA, company has emerged from the startup accelerator of Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), and it counts the DNA sequencing giant among its investors along with Arch Venture Partners, Venrock, and others.

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CoreLogic Expands Board Of Directors

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Irvine-based property information and data provider CoreLogic says it has expanded its board of directors, and has named J. Michael Shepherd to its board. Shepherd is currently Chairman of Bank of the West, and previously had been CEO of the bank from 2008 to 2016. He also served at The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and Shawmut National Corporation, in addition to serving as Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, Associate Counsel to the President of the United States and Deputy Assistant A

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San Diego International Airport To Install Battery Storage System

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The San Diego International Airport (SAN), has installed a high tech, energy storage system from Engie Storage , a developer of battery-based energy storage systems, to help it reduce its energy charges and power bill. According to Engie, San Diego International Airport has installed a 2 MW/4 MWh energy storage system, which is tied to the airport's existing photovoltaic solar system.

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