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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

socalTECH

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. We spoke with CEO Matt Levin to hear about how Donut Media is looking to speak to the Millennial car enthusiast through both its online videos as well as social content.

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Silicon Beach Report May 12: Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Begins Horizontal Digging in Hawthorne with Tunneling Machine.

L.A. Business Journal

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. begins horizontal digging in Hawthorne with tunneling machine, military could have low-cost launch market in five years with increased investment, and Social Reality rebrands as SRAX.

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OpenX Claims Growth In Private Ad Marketplace Effort

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based online programmatic advertising marketplace operator OpenX said on Thursday that the business involving private marketplace or advertising, its "programmatic direct" business, grew by over 500 percent year-over-year. Actual dollar amounts were not announced by OpenX. OpenX only launched its programmatic direct program in January of 2016.

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Microservices with Docker, and Dockercon Recap at Fox

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, May 18, 2017 -- Microservices with Docker, and Dockercon Recap at Fox. Docker Los Angeles. Microservices at Fox Digital You won't want to miss this! Our friends from Hollywood always put on the best Docker meetup events. See [link].

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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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SpaceX's Next Payload Arrives In Florida, Second Mission To Refly Rocket

socalTECH

A new satellite, BulgariaSat-1, built for a Bulgarian telecommunications company, has arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida, in preparation for what will be the second mission to refly a rocket for Hawthorne-based SpaceX. SpaceX is expected to launch that missions sometime in June. According to satellite and spacecraft developer Space Systems Loral (SSL), the BulgariaSat-1 satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which will launch on a "space-proven" Falcon 9 vehicle.

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Media 2.0 w/Peter Csathy and Preccelerator Program Demo Day

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, May 18, 2017 -- Media 2.0 w/Peter Csathy and Preccelerator Program Demo Day. Clear your calendar - It's going down! The Preccelerator Program Demo Day kicks off on May 18th @ 5:30pm, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. SAM Preccelerator Program is our meeting spot to showcase the Preccelerator's current class of all-star companies to investors and the start-up community.

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5 Steps To Startup Success Recommended By Many Gurus

Startup Professionals Musings

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Maybe it’s time to look harder at the mantra of a new breed of gurus and successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Blank and Eric Ries , called “nail it then scale it” (NISI).

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Amid Comey Furor, Companies React to Trump’s Cybersecurity Order

Xconomy

On a day dominated by news about President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey, and its impact on the ongoing investigation of Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, two significant developments for the cybersecurity industry also emerged Thursday. First, President Trump signed an executive order laying out plans to shore up data security for federal agencies as well as for critical U.S. infrastructure, which can include private companies such as electric utilities.

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Bio Roundup: Big Apple Mo’, Checkpoint Yes and No, CAR-T Death & More

Xconomy

“New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up, but we’re Brooklyn down.” For all you old-school Brooklyn swingers out there, we’ll take a short break from the madness in the nation’s capital and start our roundup in the greatest city in the world. You might disagree if you’ve got biotech dreams.

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