socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Hawthorne-based SpaceX appears to have kicked off a race to Mars, as the CEO of Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg, said on Tuesday that the company believes it just be able to be the first to deliver space travelers to Mars. In an interview at a Chicago conference , Muilenberg said that he believes that the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive riding a Boeing, not SpaceX, rocket.
L.A. Business Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2016
DogVacay expects profitability next year, Boeing vows to beat SpaceX to Mars, and Honest Co. allegedly makes it difficult to cancel subscriptions.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Santa Monica-based ad technology developer GumGum --which injects contextually relevant ads into images on publishers' websites, said today that it has signed a renewed partnership with Wenner Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone , Us Weekly and Men's Journal. The company said it will deliver its in-image and in-screen ad units to those publications.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Drugs that use molecular scissors to snip out or replace defective genes. Altered mosquitoes meant to sabotage entire disease-carrying populations. Both are potential uses of genome editing, which thanks to the CRISPR-Cas9 system has spread throughout the world’s biology labs and is now on the doorstep of the outside world. But with its first applications could also come unintended consequences for human health and the environment.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Two, Los Angeles area technology companies-- Evite and Pledgeling --say that a joint effort, Evite Donations, has raised $1M in donations for thousands of nonprofits over its first year. The tool, available for any Evite event, allows hosts of Evite events to collect donations to their favorite nonprofit, at no cost, with no fee for donations from Evite.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2016
In my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. In my view, this focus on the wrong skill set is the primary reason why over half of new businesses fail in the first five years, and only one out of a hundred startups get their requested funding from professional investors.
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Xconomy
OCTOBER 5, 2016
San Diego-based Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO ) said today it plans to use its 3D bio-printing technology to produce living human liver tissue “patches” that can be transplanted in patients with fatal liver disease. The idea is to help improve the function of failing livers, a stopgap measure that could extend the lives of patients on the U.S. liver transplant waiting list.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising company MediaAlpha , led by Steve Yi, says it has seen more than $100M in revenues, for the company's second year. The provider of programmatic advertising technology said it nearly doubled the size of its team in the past 12 months. The company develops a platform aimed at the vertical search media area, covering pay-per-click, pay-per-call, and pay-per-lead advertising.
Xconomy
OCTOBER 5, 2016
[ This article is co-authored by Stephanie Woerner. ]. Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. However, there is still room for competition. It’s not yet an ecosystem driver in B2B, although the longer it takes for other business supply companies to catch up, the harder it will be to beat Amazon.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Pasadena-based Green Dot said in a statement today that it will "fully support" the new rules rolled out by the CFSB this week, governing rules for prepaid debit cards--rules which were partially developed in response to some payment issues faced by Green Dot earlier in the year. According to Green Dot CEO Steve Streight, it said it fully supports the CFSB's mission, to "ensure fairness, integrity and consumer protections for all participants in the financial system." and also said it recognized
Xconomy
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. VC firms invested $14.99 billion in 1,810 U.S. deals (1,796 companies) during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to the inaugural “Venture Monitor” report released today.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Beverly Hills-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection systems, said on Tuesday that it has named Travis Reid as the company's new Chief Operating Officer. Reid was most recently serving as President of Distribution for Broad Green Pictures. He also has served at Screenvision, Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), and Loews Cineplex Entertainment, all in the CEO role.
AllTopStartups
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Launching a new product is a big deal for most businesses. You and your team will want to make sure it goes as well as possible, and that will involve… The post It All Starts Right Here: How to Hit the Ground Running with the Perfect Product Launch appeared first on AllTopStartups.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Costa Mesa-based QSC , a developer of sound equipment for the cinema industry, said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired Ultra-Stereo Labs , which manufactures audio signal processing and audio-visual test and measurement products for the cinema industry. Ultra-Stereo Labs was based in San Luis Obispo. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Carlsbad-based Verdezyne , the venture backed company which is producing synthetic chemicals using sustainable, bio-based chemical processes, has signed on specialty chemicals firm Aceto Corporation as a distributor. According to Verdezyne, Aceto will distribute its BIOLON DDDA (biobased dodecanedioic acid) in the U.S. That chemical is used in such products as automotive parts, coatings, cosmetics, and fragrances, and traditionally has been derived from petroleum, rather than renewable processes
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