socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced this morning that it has been awarded a $45.7M missile defense contract, by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). Teledyne said the award went to its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and is related to missile defense modeling and simulation tools and software. Teledyne said the contract covers the Teledyne Brown Engineering Extended Air Defense Simulation (EADSIM), a software tool used by perational command

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 -- LA Fintech Demo Mix Mingle Network. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues February 20th. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Finance is undergoing a massive change some call the "financial paradigm". Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?) are getting broken down with technological innovation in finance.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Irvine-based NGD Systems , a developer of solid state disk (SSD) controllers, has raised $12.4M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Partech Ventures, and also included Orange Digital Ventures, Alcor Micro and Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV). NGD Systems said it also raised $4M in a credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank in the financing.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Task management software Workast raises $1.85 million; Snap CEO Evan Spiegel defends Snapchat redesign; and Air Force moves to buy small rocket launch services.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has delayed its launch of the Spanish PAZ satellite--as well as the first two prototypes of its microsatellites for global Internet access--until Sunday, February 18th, SpaceX said late Thursday evening. According to SpaceX, it is now targeting a launch of February 18th from Vandenberg's SLC-4E launch pad, in order to allow for additional time for pre-launch systems checks.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Take a look at this blurb for a session about data privacy at the upcoming RSA conference on cybersecurity. It sounds a polite warning: “The importance of privacy is often alluded to in generalized, value-laden terms that, while sincere, don’t necessarily help privacy be taken seriously in the enterprise risk management process.” That situation is changing radically, with the looming May 25 deadline for enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—a sort of

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Thursday, February 22, 2018 --.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. There are always new competitors who are planning their arrival tomorrow. As an angel investor, I routinely toss business plans that focus too much on today, and don’t talk about tomorrow.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Another week of White House chaos and American gun violence. Amid it all, we tried to parse what the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposal meant for the biomedical and life-science worlds. There was talk of tackling high drug prices in the budget document, but nothing to give Medicare direct negotiating power with drug companies or allow importation of cheaper drugs from other countries—ideas Trump has embraced on occasion.

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