Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2017

Close. You can take this headline as a rule, not an exception. You’ll recognize the truism, “No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy” first stated by German Field Marshall von Moltke way back in the 19 th century. Our variant of the “battle plan” truism is important to internalize. A product at the concept stage contains feature-functionality that customers may not want or be willing to pay for, or which just might not work well enough for release to the public.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 20, 2017

Elon Musk said on Thursday that his Boring Co. received “verbal approval” to build an underground hyperloop system from Washington, D.C., to New York.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based GraphIQ , the visualization software developer led by technology veteran Kevin O'Connor, has quietly been acquired by Amazon.com , it emerged today. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. GraphIQ, which was founded by FindTheBest, will become part of Amazon.com's Alexa efforts. A report from the LA Times estimates the acquisition was worth around $50M.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 20, 2017

Elon Musk claims ‘verbal approval’ for hyperloop route from NY to DC, Falcon Heavy launch has “good chance” of failure says Elon Musk, and Hulu signs 3,000-episode distribution deal with 20th Century Fox.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

Irvine-based telematics provider Spireon said this morning that it has signed an international fleet operator, RJ & Sons LLC, as a new customer. According to Spireon, RJ & Sons LLC provides specialized logistics to customers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with a fleet of specialized trailers. Spireon said RJ & Sons, in particular, is looking to gain greater visibility into its assets as they travel across the Canadian and Mexican borders, to help prevent tampering to their trai

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2017

Houston —Houston, Mission Control has a problem. The storied control room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston—recognizable to many of us from 1960s news clips of the dawn of the Space Age – –is in need of a face-lift. And so, Space Center Houston, the visitor’s center for the JSC, has turned to the latest in financing tools, crowdfunding, for help.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2017

The second episode of Xconomy’s new podcast, Xconomy Voices , features Recorded Future co-founder and CEO Christopher Ahlberg. His Somerville, MA-based cybersecurity company monitors both the public, visible Web and the Internet’s darker corners for “threat intelligence” that can help its clients prepare for, and fend off, cyber attacks. Ahlberg’s background in data analytics and his perspective on cyber threats make him a compelling figure in the national cybersecurity discussion.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

EncompaaS , an Australians developer of enterprise data safety and compliance software, said on Wednesday that it has set up a U.S. office in Irvine, as part of a plan to enter the U.S. market this year According to EncompaaS, which is based in Sydney, it is developing a cloud compliance solutions for regulated industries, based on HPE Content Manager and deployed on Microsoft Azure.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2017

This story is part of an Xconomy series on artificial intelligence in healthcare. Some of the other stories cover a genomics hackathon , A.I. and radiology , and the impact on doctors and patients. In the classic 1967 film “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman’s just-out-of-college character gets one word of career advice from a family friend: plastics.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based EVgo which operations a national network of public, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, said it has opened up its 950th, U.S. fast charging station in New Jersey. According to EVgo, the new station is located on the New Jersey Turnpike, and was installed in an effort with New Jersey gas and electric utility Public Service Electric and Gas Co.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

San Diego-based SkySafe , a developer of anti-drone technology, said on Thursday that it has raised $11.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. SkySafe said that Lars Dalgaard of Andreessen Horowitz joins the company's board with the funding. In addition to the funding round, SkySafe says it has also received a $1.5M contract with the Department of Defense, to provide counter-UAS systems to Naval Special Warfare units.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals , the publicly held, ophthalmology pharmaceuticals developer, said it has received $16M in a senior secured non-dilutive term loan agreement from SWK Funding LLC. The company said the new funding will go to retire an existing, $13M term loan it has with Life Sciences Alternative Funding LLC, and also will go to provide additional working capital to the company.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2017

YouTube is expanding its subscription YouTube TV service into ten new markets, the company is announcing today. According to YouTube, the service has expanded into Washington, DC, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne and Charlotte, as well as Dallas-Forth Worth. The expansion into the new markets is the first expansion of YouTube TV since its launch in April, when it launched in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Ar

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